What's in a name?

Nurses General Nursing

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Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.

Remember when a hospital was just a hospital? I was thinking about this when driving around town today and I passed several hospitals. The current trend is to call everything "(XYZ) Hospital Medical Center" - as if the management cannot decide whether they are a hospital or a medical center, so they call themselves both. It makes for some very cumbersome names.

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Specializes in rehab.

My "hospital" just changed its name to a long 5 letter title excluding "medical center" at the end plus adding the various town name they are located in after that looong name phew!...you know 'who' you are in SoCa :D

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My hospital is just a basic area name with the word medical center after it. I think any building that looks like a hotel with medical in it is a safe bet that it is some form of a hospital. I have not seen the word hospital used in years. Everything is "_____" Medical Center. The way it goes I suppose.

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Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, Emergency, SAFE.

My facility turned it self into a "health system". Hospital went bye byes. :anbd:

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Specializes in ER, LTC, IHS.

Mine is "town regional medical center" but the one in the next town over is still hospital.

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Name inflation is at work here brought in by the same corporate forces that brought mission statements, vision statements and other such fads.

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