Meanings
- not comparableNot in or relating to a hospital.
They recommended that prospective studies should be based on the mothers' intention to have a nonhospital delivery.
1982, Research issues in the assessment of birth settings1 more example
The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said.
2007 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “G.E. May Buy Abbott’s Diagnostic Unit”, in New York Times
plural nonhospitals
- An institution that is not a hospital.
Nonhospitals could replace the least utilized hospitals, and the area's strengthened surviving hospital could serve as the provider of secondary care for the communities that develop nonhospitals.
1988, LaVonne Straub, Norman Walzer, Financing Rural Health Care, page 97
Origin
From non- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of nonhotel.
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