HEALTHCARE FACILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does healthcare facility mean? 

• HEALTHCARE FACILITY (noun)
  The noun HEALTHCARE FACILITY has 1 sense:

1. building where medicine is practiced

  Familiarity information: HEALTHCARE FACILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTHCARE FACILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Building where medicine is practiced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

health facility; healthcare facility; medical building

Hypernyms ("healthcare facility" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "healthcare facility"):

clinic (a healthcare facility for outpatient care)

hospital; infirmary (a health facility where patients receive treatment)

 Context examples 

A healthcare facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living.

(Long-Term Care Facility, NCI Thesaurus)

An individual that lives at a healthcare facility that provides rehabilitative, restorative, and/or ongoing skilled nursing care to patients or residents in need of assistance with activities of daily living.

(Long-term Facility Resident, NCI Thesaurus)

A patient who comes to a healthcare facility for diagnosis or treatment but is not admitted for an overnight stay.

(Outpatient, NCI Thesaurus)

A healthcare facility may be manifest as a single physical location (e.g. building), or, alternatively, as a distributed collection of physical spaces.

(Healthcare Facility, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A contact point used to send physical forms of communication to the healthcare facility.

(Healthcare Facility Postal Address, NCI Thesaurus)

The date and time span for when the healthcare facility is active.

(Healthcare Facility Effective Date Range, NCI Thesaurus)

A unique symbol that establishes identity of the healthcare facility.

(Healthcare Facility Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Many states have additional laws protecting patients, and healthcare facilities often have a patient bill of rights.

(Patient Rights, NIH)

A sequence of digits or characters used to identify a particular telephone, fax, or email of the healthcare facility.

(Healthcare Facility Telecom Address, NCI Thesaurus)