charity hospital
Indigent care facility
A charity hospital is a medical facility that provides care to patients regardless of their ability to pay, typically funded by donations, religious organizations, or public funds rather than patient fees.
The term often refers historically to hospitals serving the poor: The old charity hospital downtown closed in the 1980s.
In some regions, particularly the American South, "Charity" became shorthand for specific public hospitals serving indigent populations.
- free clinicNo-charge medical facility
- sliding scalePricing adjusted by ability
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
- almshouseCharitable home for poor
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
Sisters · nuns · emergency room · uninsured · safety net · poorhouse · benevolence · dispensary · medical care · ward rounds · welfare · donation · nonprofit · mission · bedside · healing · sick · needy
- hospitalsER, emergency room, ICU, operating room, operating rooms
- charitiesRed Cross, food bank, food banks, homeless shelter, homeless shelters
- faith healthcarefaith healing, chaplaincy, spiritual care, healing ministry, health ministry
- Quarantine Facilitieslazaretto, pesthouse, quarantine station, quarantine ward, quarantine camp
- Poor Lawworkhouse, workhouses, poorhouse, poorhouses, parish relief
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