inpatient
noun
in·pa·tient
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Definition of inpatient
: a hospital patient who receives lodging and food as well as treatment — compare outpatient
Examples of inpatient in a Sentence
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The group's most profitable hospital was Our Lady of Peace, which provides psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services to adults and youth. — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, "What to know about University of Louisville's play to buy struggling Jewish Hospital," 13 Aug. 2019 Under Methodist’s insurance plan, employees are responsible for a $750 individual deductible and then 20% of inpatient and outpatient costs, up to a maximum out-of-pocket cost of $4,100 per year. — Wendi C. Thomas, ProPublica, "Low-Wage Workers Are Being Sued for Unpaid Medical Bills by a Nonprofit Christian Hospital That Employs Them," 28 June 2019 Currently, judges in other courts can order inpatient or outpatient substance abuse services for offenders, but those programs do not typically offer the one-on-one attention that drug courtscan. — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, "Another drug court in San Antonio will tackle problem of family violence," 17 June 2019 Encompass Health will build a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Tampa Bay, Fla., to open in 2021. — William Thornton | [email protected], al, "Encompass to build 50-bed facility in Tampa Bay," 29 July 2019 Eventually, Luka’s mother, Kelly Kinard, started researching inpatient substance abuse programs, but struggled to find one that would take a teenager dependent on nicotine. — Moriah Balingit, Washington Post, "‘Helpless to the draw of nicotine’: Doctors, parents and schools grapple with teens addicted to e-cigarettes," 26 July 2019 Eventually, Luka's mother, Kelly Kinard, started researching inpatient substance abuse programs, but struggled to find one that would take a teenager dependent on nicotine. — Author: Moriah Balingit, Anchorage Daily News, "E-cigarettes spawn a form of teen addiction that worries doctors, parents and schools," 26 July 2019 Anderson underlines the difference in inpatient rates between the individual market and the group markets before the ACA’s changes; individual plans saw as little as one-third the inpatient utilization as the group plans. — Los Angeles Times, "Column: How Obamacare brought health coverage to the people, in four amazing charts," 18 July 2019 Beaumont Health’s newest hospital – its ninth – will be a mental health hospital that will double the system’s inpatient capacity for mental health patients, said Beaumonth Health CEO John Fox. — Ginger Christ, cleveland.com, "Summa Health to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beaumont Health," 9 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'inpatient.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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inpatient
noun
English Language Learners Definition of inpatient
medical
: a patient who stays for one or more nights in a hospital for treatment
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inpatient
noun
in·pa·tient
| \ ˈin-ˌpā-shənt
\
\
Medical Definition of inpatient
: a hospital patient who receives lodging and food as well as treatment — compare outpatient
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