outpatient clinics
No-admission medical centers
Outpatient clinics are medical facilities where patients receive care without being admitted for an overnight stay.
They handle routine checkups, minor procedures, and ongoing treatment for conditions that don't require hospitalization: She goes to an outpatient clinic for her physical therapy.
The term distinguishes these facilities from hospitals, where patients may stay for days or longer.
- community health centersNonprofit local medical facilities
- preventive careHealth maintenance before disease
- flu shotYearly illness prevention injection
- specialty clinicsHealthcare facilities for particular conditions
- nursesMedical care professionals
mental health counseling · follow-up visit · care coordinator · diagnostics · primary care · vaccinations · physical therapy · accessibility features · billing systems · dental clinics · wound care · laboratory testing · lab work · psychiatry · appointment · waiting rooms · waiting area · referral
- healthcaredoctors, nurses, hospitals, hospital, primary care
- hospitalshospital, ER, emergency room, ICU, operating room
- hospital facilitiesemergency rooms, ICUs, operating rooms, surgical suites, intensive care
- orthopedicsorthopedic surgeon, orthopedic surgery, bone fracture, joint replacement, hip replacement
- Healthcare Directoriesprovider network, medical centers, emergency rooms, walk-in clinics, health clinics
- medical missionsmissionary doctors, mobile clinics, rural clinics, dispensary, dispensaries
outpatient clinicshospital wards
Divided patient care areas
hospitals · nursing homes · psychiatric hospitals · inpatient rehabilitation · hospital admission
outpatient clinicsintensive care units
Hospital sections for critical patients
emergency rooms · trauma centers · operating theaters · neonatal intensive care · emergency departments