Pahoa Project - Community Medical Clinic

[jdirgo]

I suppose they could, if they added the services necessary for inpatients like dieticians, food service, 24x7 housekeeping staff, 24x7 nursing staff, on-call doctors, and developed a relationship with larger facilities to allow for the transfer of patients to levels of care that exceed their experience and state-approved care levels. There's probably more required, but those come to mind off-hand.

"Inpatient" generally means a level of care significantly higher than that available to outpatient clinics. I'd be afraid that the space that the Pahoa Community Medical Clinic has rented would not be sufficient to house the essentials of even a small "hospital". Most hospitals are required to have significant life-saving equipment -- like intubation equipment, blood bank stocks and to have emergency power sources (like generator backups) so that a power failure won't cause people to stop getting oxygen. So, like I said, I'm sure there's a fairly complex definition (and there are some here that can far better describe it than I can -- I'm looking at you, Lee D). Its not a semantic issue.

You don't believe everything you read on a Wiki, do you, Damon?

John Dirgo, R, ABR, e-PRO
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