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A hospital is an institution that provides medical, surgical, or psychiatric care and treatment for the sick or the injured, provided in part by physicians and nurses. Hospitals are maintained by private endowments or public funds, or sometimes both. General hospitals provide care for all types of illnesses, while specialized hospitals focus on only one disease or type of condition. Some hospitals treat only veterans or military personnel. General hospitals, the best known type of hospital, are designed to deal with all kinds of diseases and injuries, and often have an emergency room to handle immediate threats to health or life. They also have the capacity to dispatch emergency medical services to a remote location to provide urgent care onsite.
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