Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Hospitals

Please see a proposed split discussion here

Hi editors, as part of my work for Beutler Ink on behalf of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, I have posted a request to update early history about the hospital. If you are interested, check it out here. I am happy to discuss more over on the Cedars-Sinai article Talk page. Thanks! Danilo Two (talk) 20:52, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

I discussed earlier on the article’s talk page that the sentences use inconsistent British and American spellings. I’ve nominated this article for improvement, and on top of that, I’ve also reached out to the creator of this article and made a to-do list. I’m posting a nearly identical comment on WT:CANADA, WT:QWNB, and WT:MTL. 2600 etc (talk) 18:15, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

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I have some proposals (primarily technical in scope) to update {{Infobox hospital}} at Template talk:Infobox hospital#Some proposals. I'd love your feedback. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:36, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

I’d like to raise a question about how the “Care system” field is being populated for Australian hospitals in infoboxes.

At present, many Australian hospital articles list the care system as “Medicare (AU)”. While Medicare is the primary funding and insurance mechanism, it is arguably not the care system itself, but rather the public payer within a broader universal healthcare system.

Australia’s healthcare system is commonly described in reliable secondary sources as a universal healthcare system, with Medicare being the mechanism through which universal access is funded and administered. In this sense, listing “Medicare (AU)” may be:

• overly specific compared to other countries’ articles,
• inconsistent with how care systems are described internationally (e.g. “Universal healthcare”, “National Health Service”),
• potentially confusing to non-Australian readers, who may interpret Medicare as a service provider rather than a funding scheme.

Possible alternatives for discussion:

• Use “Universal healthcare” as the care system for Australian public hospitals
• Use “Universal healthcare (Australia)” or “Universal healthcare (via Medicare)” for added clarity
• Reserve “Medicare (Australia)” for a funding or insurance-specific field rather than “care system”

I’m interested in the project’s views on:

1. What the “care system” parameter is intended to represent (delivery model vs funding mechanism)
2. Whether “Universal healthcare” would be a more accurate and internationally consistent descriptor for Australian hospitals
3. Whether guidance or standardisation for Australian hospitals would be helpful to avoid inconsistent usage across articles

Happy to help draft guidance or collect sources if there’s agreement this is worth pursuing. IllustriousIce2472 (talk) 05:08, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

I published Hospital-at-home yesterday. Despite this WikiProject's scope stating "Physical sites where medical care is delivered as the main activity," I very much believe this is appropriate for this Project, especially given how regulatory frameworks treat hospital-at-home programs legally as proper hospitals.

Please let me know your thoughts! I'm further interested in seeing how many here have experience with this concept. Mangocove (talk) 18:03, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

The article St Thomas Hospital (Kerala) has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tagged as Unreferenced for 14 years. Tagged for notability concerns for 8 months. No other language has a reliably sourced article from which to translate. Fails the relevant notability guidelines.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion based on established criteria.

If the proposed deletion has already been carried out, you may request undeletion of the article at any time. Bearian (talk) 21:36, 15 February 2026 (UTC)