hospital

Defined in 14 places across 3 titles of the United States Code.

For purposes of this part, the term "hospital" means, with respect to any fiscal year, an institution (including a distinct part of an institution participating in the programs established under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.])—

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 300TThe Public Health and Welfare · Grants for discontinuance and conversion · for purposes of this part

For purposes of this part, the term “hospital” means, with respect to any fiscal year, an institution (including a distinct part of an institution participating in the programs established under title XVIII of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.])—

(1) which satisfies paragraphs (1) and (7) of section 1861(e) of such Act [42 U.S.C. 1395x(e)],

(2) imposes charges or accepts payments for services provided to patients, and

(3) the average duration of a patient’s stay in which was thirty days or less in the preceding fiscal year,

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2013–2022 42 U.S.C. § 300TThe Public Health and Welfare · Grants for discontinuance and conversion · for purposes of this part

For purposes of this subsection, subject to clause (ii), the term “hospital” means a subsection (d) hospital (as defined in subsection (d)(1)(B)).

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2010–present 42 U.S.C. § 1395WWThe Public Health and Welfare · Payments to hospitals for inpatient hospital services · under 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.

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 254HThe Public Health and Welfare · Provision of health services by Corps members · in this section

“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;

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 2005EThe Public Health and Welfare · Definitions · as used in this subchapter

“Hospital” means any public health center or general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease, or other type of hospital and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses’ home and training facilities, and central service facilities normally operated in connection with hospitals, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care.

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 3338The Public Health and Welfare · Definitions · as used in this subchapter

The term “hospital” includes a critical access hospital (as defined in section 1395x(mm)(1) of this title).

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1997–2020 42 U.S.C. § 1395DDThe Public Health and Welfare · Examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor · in this section

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).

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2020–present 42 U.S.C. § 1395DDThe Public Health and Welfare · Examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor · in this section

The term “hospital” includes a rural primary care hospital (as defined in section 1395x(mm)(1) of this title).

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1994–1997 42 U.S.C. § 1395DDThe Public Health and Welfare · Examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor · in this section

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.

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 291OThe Public Health and Welfare · Definitions · 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 professonal 1 personnel operated as an integral part of a hospital, but does not include any hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care.

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 300SThe Public Health and Welfare · Definitions · for purposes of this subchapter

the term “hospital” means a facility—

(A) which provides community service for inpatient medical care of the sick or injured (including obstetrical care);

(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

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1994–2003 12 U.S.C. § 1715ZBanks and Banking · Mortgage insurance for hospitals · for the purposes of this section

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

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2003–present 12 U.S.C. § 1715ZBanks and Banking · Mortgage insurance for hospitals · for the purposes of this section

The term “hospital” means a public or nonprofit institution which is—

(A) a general hospital, tuberculosis hospital, or any other type of hospital, other than a hospital furnishing primarily domiciliary care; and

(B) duly authorized to provide hospital services under the laws of the State in which it is situated.

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 6371The Public Health and Welfare · Definitions · for the purposes of this part

The term “hospital” means a subsection (d) hospital (as defined in section 1395ww(d)(1)(B) of this title).

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2010–present 42 U.S.C. § 1395jjjThe Public Health and Welfare · Shared savings program · in this section

The term “hospital” means an entity described in paragraphs (1) and (7) of section 1395x(e) of this title.

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 11151The Public Health and Welfare · Definitions · in this chapter

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.

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1994–present 24 U.S.C. § 225AHospitals and Asylums · Definitions · in this section

The terms “hospital”, “State”, “school”, “Governor”, “State energy agency”, “energy conservation measure”, “energy conservation maintenance and operating procedure”, “preliminary energy audit”, “technical assistance costs”, “energy audit” and “Secretary” have the meanings provided in section 6371 of this title.

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1994–present 42 U.S.C. § 6372The Public Health and Welfare · Definitions · for purposes of this part