Definition and Functions of Hospital

Hospital by the WHO (1957) provided a comprehensive limitation of a portion, (Integration) of the organization and the medical, function is to provide comprehensive health services to the community both curative and rehabilitative, where output services reach families and neighborhood services, the hospital is also a training center personnel health as well as for research biososial.


The hospital functions in addition to the above is also a medical referral service centers spsialistik and sub-specialist with the main function of providing and delivering health efforts that are healing (curative) and Recovery (rehabilitatisi patients) (MOH, 1989) So according to its primary function is necessary in such settings way that the house skit able to leverage its resources with efficient and effective manner (Elias: 2001.)According to the decision of the Minister of Health no. 983 / Menkes / 17 / 1992 on guidelines for the organization of public hospitals are hospitals that provide health services that are basic, spsialistik, and sub-specialist, while the classification based on different levels according to the ability of health services that can be provided by the hospitals of class A, Class B, (Education and Non Education) Class C and Class D.
The hospital is an organization that through an organized medical professionals and medical facilities parmanen organizing health care, continuous nursing care, diagnosis and treatment of diseases suffered by patients.
Of advances in technology coupled with the use of new ways in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic requires hospitals to employ a variety of medical professions and other professions so that hospitals be labor-intensive organization specialist and is a place where there is a process of conversion of inputs into outputs. The main input is a doctor, nurse other personnel, infrastructure, facilities equipment and so on are part of the hospital.