Hospital

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-013442",
  "term": "Hospital",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A facility that provides medical care and treatment for patients who are acutely ill or chronically ill on an inpatient basis under supervision of licensed physicians and under nursing care offered 24 hours per day. Hospitals include diagnostic and major surgery facilities but exclude doctor's offices, clinics, or other facilities whose primary purpose is to provide medical services to humans or animals on an outpatient basis.\n\n2. Any facility which has an organized medical staff, maintains at least six inpatient beds, and where the primary function of the institution is to provide diagnostic and therapeutic patient services and continuous nursing care primarily to human inpatients who are not related and who stay on average in excess of 24 hours per admission. This definition does not include facilities maintained for the sole purpose of providing nursing or convalescent care to human patients who generally are not acutely ill but who require continuing medical supervision.\n\n3. Facility which has an organized medical staff, maintains at least six inpatient beds, and where the primary function of the institution is to provide diagnostic and therapeutic patient services and continuous nursing care primarily to human inpatients who are not related and who stay on average in excess of 24 hours per admission. This definition does not include facilities maintained for the sole purpose of providing nursing or convalescent care to human patients who generally are not acutely ill but who require continuing medical supervision.",
  "references": [
    "40 CFR 63.10448 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 60.51c (CFR 2013); 40 CFR 62.14490 (CFR 2018)",
    "40 CFR 62.14490 (CFR 2018)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/hospital/"
}