Specialty hospitals

Special hospitals
Single specialty hospitals

Work cat.: U.S. General Accounting Office. Specialty hospitals [ER], 2003: GAO highlights (specialty hospitals identified by GAO--hospitals that focus on cardiac, orthopedic, or women's medicine, or on surgical procedures)
MeSH, Oct. 23, 2003 (MeSH heading: Hospitals, Special; scope note: Hospitals which provide care for a single category of illness with facilities and staff directed toward a specific service; entry term: Special Hospital; MeSH tree structures (narrower terms): Cancer Care Facilities; Cardiac Care Facilities; Hospices; Hospitals, Chronic Disease; Hospitals, Convalescent; Hospitals, Maternity; Hospitals, Osteopathic; Hospitals, Pediatric; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Surgicenters)
1997 economic census: NAICS 622310, specialty (except psychiatric and substance abuse) hospitals, via WWW, Oct. 23, 2003 ("This industry consists of establishments known and licensed as specialty hospitals primarily engaged in providing diagnostic and medical treatment to inpatients with a specific type of disease or medical condition (except psychiatric or substance abuse).")
Competition between single-specialty hospitals and full-service hospitals, 2003?, via WWW, Oct. 23, 2003.
Lexikon: dict. of health care terms, 1994 (specialty hospital: a type of hospital that provides services to patients with special medical conditions or special categories of patients)
Slee, V.N. Health care terms, 1996: p. 283 (Specialty hospital)

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