Advice for students

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Advice for students: 
Some patients in a hospital come just for diagnosis and/or therapy and then leave ('outpatients'); 
while others are 'admitted' and stay overnight or for several weeks or months ('inpatients'). Hospitals are 
usually distinguished from other types of medical facilities by their ability to admit and care for inpatients. 
SPECIALIZED HOSPITALS 
Types of specialized hospitals include trauma centers, children's hospitals, seniors' (geriatric) 
hospitals, and hospitals for dealing with specific medical needs such as psychiatric problems (see psychiatric 
hospital), certain disease categories, and so forth. 
A hospital may be a single building or a campus. Some hospitals are affiliated with universities for 
medical research and the training of medical personnel. Worldwide, most hospitals are run on a non-profit 
basis by governments or charities. Within the United States, most hospitals are not-for-profit. 
HOSPITAL 
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 direct charitable donations. In history, however, they were often founded 
and funded by religious orders or charitable individuals and leaders. Hospitals are nowadays staffed by 
professional physicians, surgeons and nurses, whereas in history, this work was usually done by the founding 
religious orders or by volunteers. 
PRIVATE HOSPITAL 
A private hospital is a hospital which is owned by a company and is privately funded, through the 
payment for medical services by patients, by insurers or by embassies from different countries abroad, who 
are sponsoring the patients to have their treatments in the private hospital.