teaching hospital
noun
: a hospital that is affiliated with a medical school and provides means for medical education
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This time, 134 hospitals out of more than 2,000 in the country earned the Top Hospital Award for 2024, including eight children’s hospitals, 36 general hospitals, 15 rural hospitals and 75 teaching hospitals.
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Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
But hospital social workers are often overworked, said Kylie Haines, who manages a program for pregnant women with opioid use disorder at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the top maternity teaching hospitals in the nation.
—Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Reeder currently serves as system vice president and chief operating officer for Ochsner Medical Center, a hospital in the New Orleans area and a teaching hospital.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
Some in the development world have dismissed teaching hospitals, such as those that provide care for AIDS or cancer, as not cost-effective, nor sustainable, nor a wise use of scarce resources.
—Paul Farmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2013
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Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 14 Jan. 2025
But hospital social workers are often overworked, said Kylie Haines, who manages a program for pregnant women with opioid use disorder at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the top maternity teaching hospitals in the nation.
—Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
Reeder currently serves as system vice president and chief operating officer for Ochsner Medical Center, a hospital in the New Orleans area and a teaching hospital.
—Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
Some in the development world have dismissed teaching hospitals, such as those that provide care for AIDS or cancer, as not cost-effective, nor sustainable, nor a wise use of scarce resources.
—Paul Farmer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2013
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teaching hospital
noun
teach·ing hospital
ˈtē-chiŋ- 
: a hospital that is affiliated with a medical school and provides the means for medical education to students, interns, residents, and sometimes postgraduates
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