Part A: Inpatient Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation, and Hospice

The word admission is fraught with confusion. It seems like lay people use it very differently from how physicians and other healthcare professionals use it. So when you are physically on the hospital premises, you could be in either outpatient status, which is typically ER or observation,. And the transition from outpatient to inpatient is called the admission. That's what's used in the medical lingo.

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