HOSPITALS

Hospitals can be further classified based on the treatment provided by them (indicative) or in terms of facilities offered by as:

General Medical & Surgical Hospitals:

The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which is set up to deal with many kinds of diseases and injury, and normally has an emergency department to deal with immediate and urgent threats to health.

Specialty Hospitals:

Specialty hospitals provide care for a specific specialty and tailor their care and facilities to fit the chosen type of condition, patient, or procedure on which they focus. Types of specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric problems, certain disease categories such as cardiac, oncology, or orthopedic problems, and so forth.

Teaching Hospitals:

Some hospitals are affiliated with universities for medical research and the training of medical personnel such as physicians and nurses, often called teaching hospitals. A teaching hospital combines assistance to patients with teaching to medical students and nurses and often is linked to a medical school, nursing school, or university.

Psychiatric Hospitals:

Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, are hospitals specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders. This industry includes establishments licensed to provide diagnostic, medical treatment, and monitoring services for inpatients who suffer from mental illness or substance abuse disorders. These establishments maintain inpatient beds and a staff of physicians. Facilities that emphasize counseling for mental health and substance abuse rather than medical treatment are not included in the industry.

Family Planning & Abortion Clinics:

Family planning is the planning of when to have children and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans. This industry includes freestanding centers with medical staff primarily engaged in assisting pregnant women and families in making various decisions regarding family planning. Services are provided on an outpatient basis and include contraception, genetic and prenatal counseling, voluntary sterilization, and pregnancy termination.

Hospices & Palliative Care Centers:

This industry provides programs that offer symptom relief and pain management for patients with life-terminating illnesses. Hospice care applies to companies that administer care (in terms of comfort rather than cure) to patients with life-limiting illnesses or diseases. Non-hospice palliative care is provided to individuals with serious, complex illnesses, whether they are expected to recover fully.

Dental Laboratories:

Dental laboratories manufacture or customize a variety of products to assist in the provision of oral health care by a licensed dentist. This industry comprises establishments that manufacture dentures, crowns, bridges, and orthodontic products customized for individual applications as prescribed by licensed dentists.

Blood & Organ Banks:

Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body, from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation. This industry includes companies that are primarily engaged in collecting, storing, and distributing blood, blood products, and body organs.