nonhospital
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nonhospital (not comparable)
- Not in or relating to a hospital.
- 1982, Research issues in the assessment of birth settings:
- They recommended that prospective studies should be based on the mothers' intention to have a nonhospital delivery.
- 2007 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “G.E. May Buy Abbott’s Diagnostic Unit”, in New York Times[1]:
- The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said.
Noun
[edit]nonhospital (plural nonhospitals)
- An institution that is not a hospital.
- 1988, LaVonne Straub, Norman Walzer, Financing Rural Health Care, page 97:
- Nonhospitals could replace the least utilized hospitals, and the area's strengthened surviving hospital could serve as the provider of secondary care for the communities that develop nonhospitals.