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Hospital vs Multihospital - What's the difference?

hospital | multihospital |

As adjectives the difference between hospital and multihospital

is that hospital is hospitable while multihospital is involving more than one hospital.

As a noun hospital

is a building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.

hospital

English

(wikipedia hospital)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A building designed to diagnose and treat the sick, injured or dying. Usually has a staff of doctors and nurses to aid in the treatment of patients.
  • A building founded for the long term care of its residents, such as an almshouse. The residents may have no physical ailments, but simply need financial support.
  • (obsolete) A place of lodging.
  • * , II.ix:
    • they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale , / They thither marcht [...].
  • The place and state of being hospitalized.
    • Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital .

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * cottage hospital

    Related terms

    * hospitable * hospitality * hospitaller

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) hospitable
    • (Howell)
    1000 English basic words ----

    multihospital

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Involving more than one hospital.
  • * 1985 , Steven Samuel Sharfstein, Allan Beigel, The New economics and psychiatric care?
    • Until recently, when a multihospital firm bought existing hospitals, it was customary for the firm to record the value of the newly acquired asset...
  • * 1997 , Carolyn L Wiener, Anselm L Strauss, Where medicine fails?
    • Now, hospitals are becoming parts of collaborative multihospital systems. For example, hospitals are establishing affiliations, developing shared services...