Public health and healthcare

Home Health Aides

Home health aides (also home care aides, personal care aides) are supervised paraprofessional caregivers who assist elderly, disabled, and chronically ill clients with daily living and basic health tasks in the home; about 4.7 million U.S. jobs, median pay $35,800 (May 2025), 18% projected growth 2025-2035.

Home Nursing

Home nursing is skilled clinical nursing care delivered in a patient's home, distinct from aide-provided personal care; covered under Medicare with homebound criteria, measured by CMS star ratings, and supported by hospital-at-home evidence.

Homemaker Services

Homemaker services are non-medical assistance at home, such as meal preparation and bathing, delivered by trained aides to help ill, disabled, or recovering people manage daily living.

HOPE COVID 19 study

HOPE COVID-19 (Health Outcome Predictive Evaluation for COVID-19, NCT04334291) is an international investigator-initiated observational registry of 8,168 hospitalized COVID-19 patients led from Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, studying mortality, prognostic scores, and treatments; HOPE-II is its 55-center successor.

Hôpital Beaujon

Hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP hospital in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), France; short-stay adult CHU of GHU Nord – Université Paris Cité; opened 1935 as France's first monobloc high-rise hospital; digestive and head-neck-spine excellence; moving to Saint-Ouen in 2031.

Hôpital Cochin

Hôpital Cochin is a public university hospital in Paris belonging to Assistance publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, founded in 1780 by Jean-Denis Cochin, with sites at Cochin, Port-Royal, and Tarnier.

Hôpital Lariboisière

Hôpital Lariboisière (Hôpital Lariboisière – Fernand-Widal), AP-HP university hospital in Paris's 10th arrondissement. Inaugurated 1854, France's first pavilion-plan hospital, funded by comtesse Élisa de Lariboisière's bequest; architect Martin-Pierre Gauthier.

Hôpital Notre-Dame

Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal hospital founded 1880 by Dr Emmanuel Persillier-Lachapelle; first secular Francophone hospital in North America, at 1560 Sherbrooke Est, now part of CIUSSS Centre-Sud-de-l'Île-de-Montréal.

Hôpital Saint-Antoine

Hôpital Saint-Antoine, AP-HP public teaching hospital in Paris's 12th arrondissement, on the site of the 1198 abbaye Saint-Antoine-des-Champs; 665 beds, CRSA Inserm/Sorbonne research unit, AP-HP headquarters since 2022.

Hôpital Saint-Louis

Hôpital Saint-Louis is a public AP-HP teaching hospital in Paris's 10th arrondissement, founded by Henri IV's 1607 edict as a plague isolation hospital, birthplace of French dermatology, and a reference center for hematology, oncology, transplantation, and burns.

Hôpital Tenon

Hôpital Tenon is a public teaching hospital of the Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, opened in 1878, where singer Édith Piaf was born in 1915.

Hospice

Hospice: comfort-focused end-of-life care for terminally ill patients and families, rooted in Cicely Saunders' 1967 St Christopher's Hospice and a US Medicare benefit since 1982; four care levels, 6-month prognosis certification, over $23 billion in annual Medicare spending.

Hospices Civils de Lyon

Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Lyon's public university hospital system, second CHU of France, founded 1802, about 24,000 staff, HCL 2035 strategy, BAURéaLS project at Lyon Sud.

Hospital

Hospital: inpatient care institution (AHA: 6+ beds, physician staff, nursing; WHO: physician-staffed with inpatient accommodation). Covers types, DRG payment, occupancy, volume-outcome, ownership, and hospital-at-home since 2023.

Hospital Administrators

Hospital administrators, also called medical and health services managers, plan and direct hospital operations, finance, and personnel. Covers the profession's history since 1899, US pay and outlook, and evidence on leadership background and quality.

Hospital Authority

Hospital Authority (醫院管理局) is Hong Kong's statutory public hospital body, established 1 December 1990 under Cap. 113, managing public hospitals since December 1991 through seven clusters, over 90,000 staff and 30,000 beds.

Hospital Central Militar

Hospital Central Militar, Mexico City (Lomas de Sotelo): SEDENA's third-level high-specialty military hospital, inaugurated 20 November 1942; over 730 censable beds, 21 operating rooms, teaching and residency center of the Mexican Army.

Hospital Charges

Hospital charges are the amounts US hospitals list and bill for items and services, recorded in each hospital's chargemaster; they exceed cost and actual insurer payments, and federal transparency rules since 2021 require publishing them.

Hospital de Clínicas

Hospital de Clínicas Dr. Manuel Quintela, Montevideo university hospital of Universidad de la República on Av. Italia; inaugurated 21 September 1953, 24-story Carlos Surraco building, joined Uruguay's SNIS in 2025, renewal planned for 2030.

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Hospital de San Andrés (Lima)

The Hospital de San Andrés, also known as the Real Hospital de San Andrés, was a hospital in Lima, Peru, founded in 1552 and serving until 1875.

Hospital emergency codes

Hospital emergency codes, also known as hospital codes, are color-coded announcements used in hospitals to alert staff to emergencies like cardiac arrest or fire without alarming patients.

Hospital for Sick Children

Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Toronto paediatric teaching hospital founded 1875 by Elizabeth McMaster; Canada's first children's hospital, at 555 University Avenue since 1951, affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Hospital for Special Surgery

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), founded 1863 as the Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, is a New York academic medical center for orthopedics and rheumatology, Weill Cornell-affiliated, ranked No. 1 in US orthopedics 17 straight years.

Hospital General de México

Hospital General de México Dr. Eduardo Liceaga (HGMEL), federal reference hospital in Mexico City, inaugurated 5 February 1905 by Porfirio Díaz; decentralized Secretaría de Salud organism offering 83 specialties, free care, and major research output.

Hospital Information Systems

Hospital information systems (HIS) are integrated computer-assisted systems managing administrative and clinical hospital information, from 1960s billing mainframes to modern EHR platforms, with interoperability, evaluation, and cost-benefit evidence as defining concerns.

Hospital medicine

Hospital medicine: specialty of comprehensive care for hospitalized patients, practitioners called hospitalists; term coined by Wachter and Goldman in 1996; organized around site of care, not organ or age.

Hospital Militar Central

Hospital Militar Central: level IV military hospital in Bogotá, Colombia, inaugurated 25 April 1962, attached to the Ministry of National Defense; main reference center for Military Forces and Police health care. Same-named hospitals exist in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and El Salvador.