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Health Care Institution
Residential structure for the reception and the full-time care of patients for diagnostic and / or healing and / or rehabilitation purposes. It is equipped with specialized medical personnel, equipments for diagnosis and treatment and possibly services to support to hospital treatment, such as: emergency department, recovery center, first aid, blood transfusion center, dialysis center, operating rooms, hyperbaric chambers, incubators , ambulances, mobile intensive care units. The Health Care Institute is defined also as the hospital entity that is independent or dependent on a public (eg. ASL) or private structure. It comprises all hospital divisions, sections and services. The health care institutes can be public or private: the public ones are independent or, in the majority of cases depend from the ASLs or from other public entities (eg. the Universities); the private institutes belong to private owners, or religious Orders and Congregations. Each institute is identified by a code under DM 09/06/1988. The specific typologies of health care institutes are: 1) a hospital with direct management, set up as an enterprise in conformity with art.4,paragraph 1of the D.L.502/92 (see Hospital Enterprise); 2) a hospital with direct management, as presidium of ASL; 3) Hospital universitary Enterprise and universitary general Hospital: - hospital enterprises set up after the transformation of universitygeneral hospitals directly managed, defined integrated university hospital enterprises, in National Health Service (Art2 paragraph 2 letter a) of Legislative Decree n.517 21/12/99); - hospital enterprises set up by transformation of hospital presidium .......... - private universitary general hospitals 4)Institution for scientific research, hospitalisation and treatment (art.42 Law 833/78) (public, private and foundations).

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Hospital Enterprise
Bed
Hospitalisation regime
Hospitalisation
Hospital Discharge Record

 
 

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