Hospital facts for kids
A hospital is a place where a person goes to be healed when he or she is sick or injured. The difference between a hospital and other healthcare places like a clinic or a doctor's office is that a hospital will have beds where patients can stay overnight. These patients are called inpatients. Hospitals also treat people who do not stay overnight, called outpatients. Doctors and nurses work at hospitals. Doctors make use of advanced medical technology to heal patients.
Patients who are staying at the hospital will always be under the care of doctors and nurses who are always available for taking care of the injured or sick patients. Hospitals always have the tools and machines needed for treating the patients.
The word hospital originally meant "a place where people can stay". There have been hospitals for sick people since ancient times. They were often created and run by religious groups. In the early modern period, hospitals began to be funded by donations from rich people and by governments. Today, hospitals may get money from the government, from charging patients for the treatments and check-ups, from patients' health insurance, from people giving to charity or a mix of those things.
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Starship Children's Health is a children's hospital in Auckland, New Zealand
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Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami's Health District, the primary teaching hospital for the University of Miami's Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and the largest hospital in the United States with 1,547 beds
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McMaster University Medical Centre is a teaching hospital in Hamilton, Ontario
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Hospital beds per 1000 people 2013.
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Resuscitation room bed after a trauma intervention, showing the highly technical equipment of modern hospitals
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View of the Askleipion of Kos, the best preserved instance of an Asklepieion.
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Ruins of a two thousand-year-old hospital were discovered in the historical city of Anuradhapura Mihintale Sri Lanka
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A hospital ward in sixteenth century France.
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1820 Engraving of Guy's Hospital in London one of the first voluntary hospitals to be established in 1724
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Ruins of the Hospital San Nicolás de Bari in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, recognized by UNESCO for being the oldest hospital built in the Americas. Built between 1514 and 1541.
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Pennsylvania Hospital (now part of University of Pennsylvania Health System). Founded in 1751, it is the earliest established public hospital in the United States. It is also home to America's first surgical amphitheatre and its first medical library.
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A ward of the hospital at Scutari where Florence Nightingale worked and helped to restructure the modern hospital
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Clinical Hospital Dubrava in Zagreb, Croatia
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The medical center at the University of Virginia shows the growing trend for modern architecture in hospitals.
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The National Health Service Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the UK, showing the utilitarian architecture of many modern hospitals
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Hospital chapel at Fawcett Memorial Hospital (Port Charlotte, Florida)
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Hinduja National Hospital, Mumbai
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An intensive care unit (ICU) within a hospital
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Uniklinikum Aachen in Germany
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Tampere University Hospital in Tampere, Finland
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All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, India
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Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania
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See also
In Spanish: Hospital para niños
