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Healthcare Facility
Definition 1
The buildings and organizations where healthcare services are provided. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
An organization that devotes some or all of its resources (people, places, things) to the delivery of healthcare services (including the financial and administrative management of those resources). A healthcare facility may be manifest as a single physical location (e.g. building), or, alternatively, as a distributed collection of physical spaces. EXAMPLE(S): Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
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