All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi, India.
A hospital is an institution for health care providing treatment by specialised staff and equipment, and often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays.
As of today
Today, hospitals are usually funded by the state, health organizations (for profit or non-profit), health insurances or charities, including direct charitable donations. They however, were often founded and funded by religious orders or charitable individuals and leaders. Hospitals are usually distinguished from other types of medical facilities by their ability to admit and care for inpatients.
Staffing
Modern-day hospitals are largely staffed by professional physicians, surgeons and nurses.
Patients
Some patients in a hospital come just for diagnosis and/or therapy and then leave ('outpatients'); while others are 'admitted' and stay overnight or for several weeks or months ('inpatients').
Type of hospitals
General hospital
The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which is set up to deal with many kinds of disease and injury, and typically has an emergency ward to deal with immediate threats to health and the capacity to dispatch emergency medical services.
Specialities
A general hospital is typically the major health care facility in its region, with large numbers of beds for intensive care and long-term care; and specialized facilities for surgery, plastic surgery, childbirth, bioassay laboratories, and so forth.
Specialized hospitls
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 (see psychiatric hospital), certain disease categories, and so forth.
Teaching
A teaching hospital (or university hospital) combines assistance to patients with teaching to medical students and is often linked to a medical school.
Clinics
A medical facility smaller than a hospital is generally called a clinic, and is often run by a government agency for health services or a private partnership of physicians (in nations where private practice is allowed). Clinics generally provide only outpatient services.
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