Hospital

A hospital today is an institution for professional health care provided in part by physicians and nurses.

Hospitals in the United States

In the United States the traditional hospital is a non-profit hospital, usually sponsored by a religious denomination. One of the earliest of these "almshouses" in what would become the United States was started by William Penn in Philadelphia in 1713. These hospitals are tax-exempt due to their charitable purpose, but provide only a minimum of charitable medical care. They are supplemented by large public hospitals in major cities and research hospitals often affiliated with a medical school. In the late twentieth century chains of for-profit hospitals have arisen.

Related Topics:
Non-profit hospital - William Penn - Philadelphia - 1713 - Charitable purpose - Public hospital - Research hospital - For-profit hospital

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The United States is home to some of the most technologically advanced hospitals in the world that have patients come from all over to have special procedures or operations.

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Some of these include:

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• Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas
• Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas
• UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles
• University of Chicago Hospitals and Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
• University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago, Illinois
• Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota by Minneapolis
• Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore
• Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
• Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami
• University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh
• Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center in Los Angeles
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles
• Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina by Raleigh
• University of North Carolina Hospital and Clinics in Chapel Hill, North Carolina by Raleigh
• Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio
• San Francisco Medical Center in San Francisco
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri
• New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
• University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Detroit
• Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan
• Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California by San Jose