inpatient

as in outpatient
a person who stays for one or more nights in a hospital for medical treatment
often used before another noun
inpatient surgery It was inpatient treatment that required a lengthy hospital stay.

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Recent Examples on the Web The hospital is also suspending all operations except the emergency room, Ballad Health said in a post on X. Sycamore Shoals Hospital in Elizabethton, Tennessee, also suspended inpatient services and operations except for the emergency room. NBC News, 29 Sep. 2024 New full-service hospitals with inpatient beds are rare in rural America, where declining populations have spurred decades of downsizing and closures. Sarah Jane Tribble, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024 Her deeply caring family struggled with family sessions during her inpatient treatment, complicated by the need for interpreters, a prescribed inpatient diet that differed from the meals typically eaten at home, and a hesitancy to ask questions of the health care team. Ashley Andreou, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024 Hospital cost data from 2022, the most recent year available, shows that one or two health systems control the entire market for inpatient care in 47% of metropolitan areas in the country. Maya Goldman, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for inpatient 

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“Inpatient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inpatient. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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