Hello! I work at a hospital.
What a great job! Is your hospital a trauma center, children's hospital, geriatric or rehabilitation hospital?
It's a children's hospital. They're a really vulnerable population, so it's really gratifying work.
I'll bet it is! Is your facility also a teaching hospital? A teaching hospital trains medicals students and nurses.
It is! We have a lot of students just out of medical school learning the ropes at our facility. It's great to see the future of medicine in good hands.
only constitutes 10% of income of hospitals. "(need citation here. Chinese sources seem conflicted about the for-profit/non-profit ratio of hospitals in China)"
Specialised hospitals can help reduce health care costs compared to general hospitals. For example, Narayana Health's Bangalore cardiac unit, which is specialised in cardiac surgery, allows for significantly greater number of patients. It has 3000 beds (more than 20 times the average American hospital) and in pediatric heart surgery alone, it performs 3000 heart operations
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH) is a nationally ranked academic medical center located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship campus for Northwestern Medicine and the primary teaching hospital for Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. Affiliated institutions also located on campus include the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital with Level I pediatric trauma care and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, a leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Northwestern Memorial provides a total of 894 inpatient beds and encompasses more than 3