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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.
Orca, ADN, ASN, RN
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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.