charity hospitals
Philanthropic medical facilities
Charity hospitals are medical facilities that provide care to patients regardless of ability to pay, historically serving the poor and uninsured.
These institutions originated as religious or philanthropic ventures, funded by donations and endowments rather than patient fees.
The term now often refers to public hospitals or those with missions to treat indigent populations: The old charity hospital downtown still serves anyone who walks through its doors.
- free clinicNo-charge medical facility
- sliding scalePricing adjusted by ability
- almshouseCharitable home for poor
- poorhouseShelter for the destitute
- mercyCompassion toward offenders
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