nonhospital

English

Etymology

non- +‎ hospital

Adjective

nonhospital (not comparable)

1. Not in or relating to a hospital.
   • 1982, Research issues in the assessment of birth settings:

     They recommended that prospective studies should be based on the mothers' intention to have a nonhospital delivery.

   • 2007 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “G.E. May Buy Abbott’s Diagnostic Unit”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said.

Noun

nonhospital (plural nonhospitals)

1. An institution that is not a hospital.
   • 1988, LaVonne Straub, Norman Walzer, Financing Rural Health Care, page 97:

     Nonhospitals could replace the least utilized hospitals, and the area's strengthened surviving hospital could serve as the provider of secondary care for the communities that develop nonhospitals.