These health services include a wide variety of medical treatments and consults, inpatient and outpatient hospitalization, home health service, ambulance service, and sometimes dental and pharmacy services. A person trained to assist public health nurses, home health nurses, and other health professionals in the bedside care of patients in their homes. Facts On File Publications, 1988. Facts On File Publications, 1988. A provider who is educated and trained in a system of therapeutics in which diseases are treated by drugs which are capable of producing in healthy persons symptoms like those of the disease to be treated.
Treatment requires administering a drug in minute doses.
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary . W.B. Saunders Company, 1981. A health care organization that has a governing body, an organized medical staff and professional staff and inpatient facilities and provides medical nursing and related services for ill and injured patients 24 hrs per day, seven days per week. For licensing purposes, each state has its own definition of hospital. A distinct part of a general acute care hospital.