ICRI HEALTH

CLASSIFICATION OF HOSPITALS

OBJECTIVES OF HOSPITAL
 To provide Total Healthcare to the

community Curative, Preventive, Restorative, Health Promotional Care.  To practice Good and Ethical Clinical and Management Practices.  Education and Training to Medical, Nursing and Paramedical personnel  Research medical, nursing, allied and biosocial areas

CLASSIFICATION
 Hospitals can be classified in many ways:

1. According to their objectives: Teaching Hospital, Non-teaching Hospital, Charitable Hospital etc. 2. According to the type of patients treated: Children s Hospital, Women s Hospital, Geriatric Hospital etc. 3. According to the ownership and control: Government Hospital, Private Hospital etc.

Hospitals Owned and Controlled by Govt.

 Central Govt.

- under Ministry of Health RML, Safdarjung - Railway Hospital for railway staff - under Labour Ministry- ESI Hospitals - under Ministry of Defense- Army Hospitals - under Home Ministry BSF, CRPF Hospitals - Under Act of Legislation : Central Act AIIMS State Act: PGI, NIMS

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 Under State Govt. (also known as Public

Hospitals), run by State Govt., like LNJP Hospital, Osmania General Hospital, Gandhi Hospital etc.  Under Local Self Govt. Municipal Corporation Hospitals, Cantonment Hospitals NON-GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS  Profit Oriented  Non-profit Oriented

Profit oriented Hospitals

 Private Nursing Homes, Maternity Homes  Corporate Hospitals:

1. Private Sector: Apollo, Fortis, Global, Yeshoda etc. 2. Public Sector: some of the public hospitals when they are offering services to others on payment basis, some CGHS/Railway/ Army Hospitals

Non-profit oriented Hospitals

 Hospitals registered under Registration Act

1860- Voluntary Hospitals, such hospitals may offer Free/subsidized services  Hospitals registered under Trust Act, 1882 Charitable Hospitals. They offer free/subsidized services. No member of the Trust is entitled to any profit/remuneration.  Hospitals managed by Cooperative Societies: they are quite common in Maharashtra

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 According to the System of Medicine:

Allopathic, Homeopathic, Ayurvedic, Naturopathic, Unani, Sidha etc.  According to the Bed Strength: Arbitrarily, into Large, Medium and Small depending on the no of beds available there. More than 300 beds= Large Hospital, between 100 to 300= Medium Hospital, less than 100 beds is a Small Hospital.  According to Clinical Basis: clinical classification. General Hospitals, Specialized Hospitals

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 According to Length of Stay of Patients: Short-

term Hospitals, Long-term Hospitals  According to the Directory of Hospitals in India 1988 (G.O.I): A) General Hospital: where services offered are in the basic specialties. B) Rural Hospital: located in rural areas providing services in 4 basic specialties. C) Specialized Hospital: offering services in only one disciplineTB, ENT, Eye, Orthopaedic, Paediatric etc. D)Teaching Hospital E) Isolation Hospital

Based on the types of Management

a) Central Government/Govt. of India: All hospitals

administered by the GOI viz., hospitals run by the railways, Military/Defense, Mining/P & T or public sector undertaking of the central govt. b) State Govt.: All hospitals administered by the State/UT of State Govt. including police, jail and canal depts. c) Local Bodies: administered by municipal corpn., municipality, Zilla Parishad, Panchayat

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d) Private: All private hospitals owned by an individual or by a Private Organization. e) Autonomous Body: All hospitals established under a special Act of Parliament/State Legislation and funded by the Central /State Govt./Undertakings like AIIMS, PGI, NIMS f) Voluntary Organization: All hospitals operated by a Voluntary body/a Trust/ Charitable Society registered or recognized under Central/State Govt. Laws, including hospitals run by missionary bodies and Cooperatives.