medical institutions
Places treating patients
Medical institutions are organizations dedicated to healthcare—hospitals, clinics, medical schools, and research facilities.
The term often appears in discussions of healthcare policy, where it encompasses the entire infrastructure of medicine: Medical institutions have struggled to adapt to the pandemic.
It can also refer to established practices within medicine itself: the medical institution of informed consent.
- health departmentGovernment body monitoring community wellness
- residency programSupervised postgraduate clinical training
- nursing homeLong-term eldercare residence
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- emergency roomHospital crisis department
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Cosmetic service establishments
fitness centers · yoga retreats · meditation centers · health resorts · luxury retreats
medical institutionstraditional healers
Practitioners of folk medicine
home remedies · witch doctors · faith healers · herbalists · quacks
medical institutionsfuneral homes
Establishments handling the deceased
mortuaries · morgues · cemeteries · crematoria · mausoleums
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