What are the different types of hospitals in the US?

What are the different types of hospitals in the US?

Arthur Shorr (Former COO and SVP of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) gives expert video advice on: What are the different types of hospitals in the US?; Why would I need to be admitted to a hospital?; What are my rights as a patient in a hospital? and more...

Well in the United States we have a bunch of different hospitals organized in a different ways. We have hospitals that are organized by ownership. We have hospitals that are organized by complexity. We have hospitals that are organized by for profit or not for profit status. For example, we have general hospitals also called community hospitals that are obvious what they do. They are in local communities and provide basic medical surgical services to the community. We have university teaching hospitals where residents and other health care professionals get their training. We have specialty hospitals specific for children for example, we have cancer hospitals. So there are a couple of different ways of organizing hospitals. When you look at the ownership for hospitals you see not for profit community hospitals. As I said, you see for profit hospitals that are organized with a slightly different method to them. And you have hospitals that are operated by and organized by governmental agencies. Counties, cities, states as examples of how different hospitals are organized.