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General Acute Care Hospitals
Health care facilities that operate 24 hours per day and offer diagnostic and treatment services as well as emergency and critical care services for people who have any of a variety of illnesses or injuries which require immediate, short-term intervention.
Specialty Hospitals
Health care facilities that provide diagnostic and treatment services in an inpatient setting for people who have specified medical conditions.
The above terms and definitions are part of the Taxonomy of Human Services, used here by permission of INFO LINE of Los Angeles.