health clinics

Outpatient care centers

Health clinics are medical facilities offering outpatient care, typically more limited in scope than hospitals.

They range from small neighborhood offices to larger urgent care centers.

Some specialize: a women's health clinic, a free clinic for the uninsured.

The term often appears in discussions of community healthcare access: The county opened three new health clinics in underserved areas.

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Acute care hospital departments

trauma centers · emergency departments · accident and emergency · intensive care units · life flight

institutional scale and comprehensiveness

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Institutions treating the sick

medical centers · teaching hospitals · university hospitals

health vs. harm

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Rooms for inflicting pain

death camps · gas chambers · killing fields · slaughterhouses · battlefields

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