hospital
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889)
Definitions from Case Law
United States Supreme Court
a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than twenty-four hours in any week of three or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity or other abnormal physical conditions; or a place devoted primarily to provide for not less than twenty-four hours in any week medical.
Defined by the Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood Association of Kansas City Missouri Inc v. Ashcroft Ashcroft, 462 U.S. 476 (1983).
United States Code
12 U.S.C. § 1715Z — for the purposes of this section (5 versions over time)
the term “hospital” means a facility—
(A) which provides community service for inpatient medical care of the sick or injured (including obstetrical care);
(B) not more than 50 per centum of the total patient days of which during any year are customarily assignable to the categories of chronic convalescent and rest, drug and alcoholic, epileptic, mentally deficient, mental, nervous and mental, and tuberculosis, unless the facility is a critical access hospital (as that term is defined in section 1861(mm)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1395x(mm)(1))); and
(C) which is a public facility, proprietary facility, or facility of a private nonprofit corporation or association, licensed or regulated by the State (or, if there is no State law providing for such licensing or regulation by the State, by the municipality or other political subdivision in which the facility is located); and
24 U.S.C. § 225A — in this section
The term “Hospital” means the institution in the District of Columbia known as Saint Elizabeths Hospital operated on November 8, 1984, by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
42 U.S.C. § 11151 — in this chapter (2 versions over time)
The term “hospital” means an entity described in paragraphs (1) and (7) of section 1395x(e) of this title.
42 U.S.C. § 1395DD — in this section (10 versions over time)
The term "hospital" includes a critical access hospital (as defined in section 1395x(mm)(1) of this title) and a rural emergency hospital (as defined in section 1395x(kkk)(2) of this title).
42 U.S.C. § 1395WW — under this section
For purposes of this subsection, subject to clause (ii), the term “hospital” means a subsection (d) hospital (as defined in subsection (d)(1)(B)).
42 U.S.C. § 2005E — as used in this subchapter
“Hospital” includes diagnostic or treatment centers and general hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses’ home and training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care;
42 U.S.C. § 254H — in this section
For purposes of this subsection, the term “hospital” includes a State or local public hospital, a private profit hospital, a private nonprofit hospital, a general or special hospital, and any other type of hospital (excluding a hospital owned or operated by an agency of the Federal Government), and any related facilities.
42 U.S.C. § 291O — for the purposes of this subchapter
The term “hospital” includes general, tuberculosis, and other types of hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses’ home facilities, extended care facilities, facilities related to programs for home health services, self-care units, and central service facilities, operated in connection with hospitals, and also includes education or training facilities for health professions personnel operated as an integral part of a hospital, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
An institution for the reception and care of sick, wounded, infirm, or aged persons; generally incorporated, and then of the class of corporations called “eleemosynary” or “charitable.” See Charitable Uses. As to the liability of a hospital in tort, see Charitable Corporations. As to hospital records as evidence, see Physician.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
An institution for the reception and care of sick, wounded, infirm, or aged persons: generally incorporated, and then of the class of corporations called “eleemosynary” or “charitable.”
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
See Charity, 3.