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Health Care Setting

Health care settings include hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other facilities focused on health care delivery. There are different types of hospitals categorized by services provided, ownership, and bed capacity. General hospitals treat a variety of conditions for all ages, while specialty hospitals focus on specific diseases. Hospitals are also public (government-owned) or private. Classification by bed capacity includes primary/level 1 centers providing basic care, to level 4 hospitals conducting research and specialized treatment. Teaching hospitals integrate medical education with patient care.

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Health Care Setting

Health care settings include hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and other facilities focused on health care delivery. There are different types of hospitals categorized by services provided, ownership, and bed capacity. General hospitals treat a variety of conditions for all ages, while specialty hospitals focus on specific diseases. Hospitals are also public (government-owned) or private. Classification by bed capacity includes primary/level 1 centers providing basic care, to level 4 hospitals conducting research and specialized treatment. Teaching hospitals integrate medical education with patient care.

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Health Care Setting

HEALTH CARE SETTING

-   In focuses on the delivery of health care which includes but are not limited to acute-care
hospitals, long-term health facilities such as nursing homes, urgent care, outpatient clinics, home
health care.

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This includes all activities whose primary purposed is to promote, restore, or maintain health

A.    Hospital

 is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff
and medical equipment. There are two  best-known type of hospital is the:

General hospital, which typically has an emergency department to treat urgent health problems
ranging from fire and accident victims to a sudden illness. A district hospital typically is the
major health care facility in its region, with many beds for intensive care and additional beds
for patients who need long-term care.

Specialized hospitals include trauma centers, rehabilitation hospitals, children's hospitals,


seniors' (geriatric) hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such
as psychiatric treatment (see psychiatric hospital) and certain disease categories. Specialized
hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. Hospitals are classified
as general, specialty, or government depending on the sources of income received.

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And there are special type of hospital known as teaching hospital combines assistance to people
with teaching different programs or courses related to medicine.

There are different infrastructure related to health care settings and delivery

1.     General hospital. A hospital that provides a range of different services for patients of
various age groups and with varying disease conditions.
2.     Specialized hospital. A hospital admitting primarily patients suffering from a specific
disease or affection of one system, or reserved for the diagnosis and treatment of conditions
affecting a specific age group or of a long-term nature.

3.     District/first-level referral hospital. A hospital at the first referral level that is responsible
for a district or a defined geographical area containing a defined population and governed by a
politico-administrative organization such as a district health management team. The role of
district hospitals in primary health care has been expanded beyond being dominantly curative
and rehabilitative to include promotional, preventive, and educational roles as part of a primary
health-care approach. The district hospital has the following functions:

-   it is an important support for other health services and for health care in general in the district;

-   it provides wide-ranging technical and administrative support and education and training for
primary health care;

-   it provides an effective, affordable health-care service for a defined population, with their full
participation, in cooperation with agencies in the district that have similar concerns.

4.     Primary health-care centre. A centre that provides services which are usually the first point
of contact with a health professional. They include services provided by general practitioners,
dentists, community nurses, pharmacists and midwives, among others.

 Type of hospital according to services:

1.     General hospital

2.     Specialty hospital

Type according to ownership


1.     Public

2.     Government

Type according to bed capacity

1.     Level 1

2.     Level 2

3.     Level 3

4.     Level 4

Teachers insight / discussion

Hospitals are known to play important role specially in terms of well-being of an individual,
specially also this time that we face great threat in health. But put into consideration hospital has
its special services which other hospitals might have or might not have.  There are Hospital also
which only caters specific diseases or conditions. They're divided into the categories  according
to services General Hospital – which caters all type of disorders and disease. Specialty
hospital – which caters special type of cases of specific disease.  Hospitals also categories
according who manage or owned the hospital once hospital are owned by the government it is
termed as Government or Public hospitals, and the health institution owned by a group not
related to the government it is known as private hospital. Last category of the hospital is
according to their catered services or its bed capacity. This are levelled according to their
capabilities and services. This are level as  of primary  or level 1 care, secondary level 2 care,
tertiary level 3 care, and quaternary level 4 care. Each level is related to the complexity of the
medical cases being treated as well as the skills and specialties of the providers. 

The level 1 hospital or primary care level involve in the delivery of first aid and basic medical
services like consultation and the first level of referral system. The level 2 is more complex than
the in the services of the offered by the level 1 this caters minor surgical procedure and
diagnostic procedure. Level 3 deliver more extensive in all services like diagnostic,
rehabilitation, therapeutic and laboratory services.  Level 4 are known as the research base and
institutional base and a training base hospital. Deliver the most extensive services. The level 4
institution also used to cater research studies and trainings.

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