Base hospital

A base hospital is a hospital in Australia or New Zealand serving a large rural area, perhaps equivalent to an American District Hospital. It is often supported by smaller hospitals in local communities.^[1] Examples include Bendigo Base Hospital in Australia, and Grey Base Hospital in New Zealand.

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Common hospital components	Accreditation Bed Coronary care unit Emergency department Emergency codes Hospital administrators Hospital information system Hospital medicine Hospital museum Hospitalist Intensive care unit Nocturnist On-call room Operating theater Orderly Patients Pharmacy Wards
Archaic forms	Almshouse Asclepeion (Greece) Bimaristan (Islamic) Cottage hospital (England) Hôtel-Dieu (France) Medicine in ancient Rome#Hospitals (Roman) Vaishya lying in houses (India) Xenodochium (Middle Ages)
Geographic service area	Base hospital (Australia) Community hospital General hospital Regional hospital or District hospital Municipal hospital
Complexity of services	Day hospital Secondary hospital Tertiary referral hospital Teaching hospital Specialty hospital
Unique physical traits	Hospital ship Hospital train Mobile hospital Underground hospital Virtual Hospital
Limited class of patients	Military hospital Combat support hospital Field hospital Prison hospital Veterans medical facilities Women's hospital
Funding	Charitable hospital For-profit hospital Non-profit hospital State hospital Private hospital Public hospital Voluntary hospital Defunct
Condition treated	Cancer Children's hospital Eye hospital Fever hospital Leper colony Lock hospital Maternity hospital Psychiatric hospital Rehabilitation hospital Trauma center Verterinary hospital
Century established	5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Lists of hospitals in: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

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