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Number Of Mental Hospitals: Because of the growing interdependence of the various medical specialties, there has been a tendency for special hospitals to be transformed into general hospitals or for special hospitals to merge with general hospitals. With the exception of a limited number of mental hospitals, it is likely that most special hospitals will eventually become part of general hospital organizations.
Hospitals according to this ification are either general or special. Gen-hospitals may have a wide variety of services, .ding medical, surgical, obstetric, pediatric, hiatric, and rehabilitation. They usually ac-patients of all ages and with all types of ies and diseases. Many general hospitals, in don, have out-patient departments, or clinics, veil as emergency wards, extended care ces, and home care services. Included among general hospitals are osteopathic hospitals the military hospitals run by the different :hes of the anned forces, pecial hospitals include children's hospitals, rnity hospitals, eye, ear, nose, and throat itals, Cancer hospitals, and mental hospitals.
In European coun-, there is a mixture of church-owned, )rofit hospitals, government-owned hospitals, privately-owned hospitals. n the United States there are four principal s of owners: voluntary nonprofit corporations, ious bodies, government agencies, and busi-organizations. In general, voluntary and ch-sponsored hospitals predominate among s that provide care for victims of accidents,
•ral acute illnesses, and maternity patients, srnment-owned hospitals predominate among 3 providing care for mental illness and other litions of long duration. Business-owned, or rietary, hospitals represent only a small on of the total number. They generally pro-care for acute illnesses.ength of Stay. Hospitals classified according sual length of stay of patients are of two 5—long-term and short-term. There is no 3 line of distinction between the two, but rally patients in short-term hospitals stay an ige or three weeks or less, while those in
-term hospitals stay an average of a month lore.
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