Hospitalization Admittance to a hospital as a patient. Whether planned or on an emergency basis, hospitalization causes disruption in the life of any child. However, with the special accommodations that modern hospitals usually make for both children...

Chinese hospitals are the pillars of the urban health care system and an important but not always accessible resource for rural residents with serious illnesses. Most of China’s 16,732 hospitals were built after 1949 in accordance with Chinese...

. From their origin as guesthouses for pilgrims and almshouses for the indigent, medieval hospitals offered custodial care rather than therapy. The sick poor received special attention when monastic infirmaries were extended beyond the cloister in...

There are various types of hospitals, but all are places in which people who need medical treatment are looked after and cared for. The Hindus built the first known hospitals during the 5th century BC in what is now known as Sri Lanka. Hospitals didn't...

A hospital is an institution for health care, often but not always providing for longer-term patient stays. Today, hospitals are usually funded by the state, health organizations (for profit or non-profit), health insurances or charities, including...

After a half-year of fruitless contract talks, the Service Employees International Union threatened a long-term strike of Valley and Desert Springs hospitals starting Dec. 4.The threat worked. Hospital officials have agreed to return to the bargaining table for three days, Nov. 27-29.It would be the...

A cardiologist resigned his staff privileges at a Maryland hospital citing vision problems after officials began investigated whether he performed unnecessary stent procedures to prop open clogged arteries.The doctor, John R. McLean, cited visual impairment as a disability in resigning his privileges at Peninsula Regional...

Evangelist Billy Graham was in fair condition Saturday and resting comfortably in a hospital near his home after he was admitted for evaluation and treatment of an intestinal bleed, hospital officials said.Graham, 88, was fully alert, and his doctors don't think his condition is life-threatening,...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 86-year-old sister of President John F. Kennedy, who founded the Special Olympics and championed the rights of the mentally retarded, has been hospitalized.Shriver was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital on Nov. 18 and was in fair condition Saturday, said hospital spokeswoman...