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Abstract
Hospitals owned and operated by a corporation or an individual that operate on a for-profit basis, also referred to as investor-owned hospitals.
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- Hospitals, Private, Investor-Owned
- Hospitals, Private, for-Profit
- Hospitals, Proprietary
- Private, Investor-Owned Hospitals
- Private, for-Profit Hospitals
- Hospital, Proprietary
- Proprietary Hospital
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10 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
privately organized & controlled hosp operated for profit; coord NIM with special hosp (e.g., HOSPITALS, CHRONIC DISEASE) or med specialty (IM or NIM) if pertinent; specify geog
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History Note
91(75); was see under HOSPITALS 1975-90
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Proprietary Hospitals. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006777. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006777
- Proprietary Hospitals. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70472124