Thesaurus results for HOSPITALS

hospitals

noun

plural of hospital

as in infirmaries

a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured She spent several days in the hospital after the accident.

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Recent Examples of hospitals The temperatures were so hot in France that the lack of air conditioning in many parts of hospitals is posing a health risk. — Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 The victims were treated at hospitals and later listed in stable condition, police said. — Jason Green, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 Vitalant is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit blood services providers supplying blood to healthcare facilities including hospitals. — Sacbee.com, 6 July 2026 Faster processing could make advanced brain modelling more practical in hospitals, where clinicians often need results quickly to support diagnosis and treatment decisions. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026 The government is somewhere in the middle – approving emergency AC units for hospitals while trying not to be seen as abandoning France’s insulation-first approach to heat. — CNN Money, 7 July 2026 The sheriff’s office and other first responders secured the scene and transported the victims to hospitals, and later turned over the scene to Idaho State Fire Marshal personnel. — Matan Josephy, Idaho Statesman, 6 July 2026 Even the hard-line Ecologists party is coming around to the fact that AC is now a necessity, with the party’s head, Marine Tondelier, saying hospitals and schools should be equipped with cooling systems. — Jessica Roy, Curbed, 29 June 2026 From Chile, a cousin of Daniel Alejandro Núñez Ramírez, 28, who’s also missing, said that his mother was told he had been found alive in the rubble and had been taken out but that so far the family hasn’t found him in any of the hospitals. — Carmen Sesin, NBC news, 30 June 2026

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What's more, some travel insurance companies don’t cover visits to ship infirmaries.

— Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 18 May 2026
Nor are they provided with their own sets of keys to access infirmaries, clinics, housing units and psych wards.

— Mary Buser, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026

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On Friday, Bass and Solis also announced an extension of multiple community mobile health clinics this weekend and next week in partnership with community health providers for those affected by the fire.

— City News Service, Daily News, 4 July 2026
So Well Self-storage, plumbing and heating outfits, dental and veterinary clinics, insurance brokers, car dealerships, debt collectors, the firms that manage your block of flats.

— Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026

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