0 a place where people who are ill or injured are treated and taken care of by doctors and nurses:
1 a place where people who are very ill or injured are treated by doctors and nurses:
He is critically ill in hospital.
He worked as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital.
The hospital is carrying out tests to find out what's wrong with her.
It developed plans to offer medical care, hospital treatment, electricity, and water trucking.
Of interest, national regulations were required already at that time to reduce the large variability among hospitals in the exact method of cost price calculation.
They also reported far less use of hospital services (particularly paediatric outpatients).