General Acute Care Hospital providers as a group are made up primarily of business entities and/or provider groups. Generally, the General Acute Care Hospital specialty is fairly evenly split between males and females with 48% of providers reporting their gender as male and 51% reporting as female. People living in New York, California, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Florida enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where General Acute Care Hospital providers practice. In all, there are 16,874 registered General Acute Care Hospital providers in the United States with over 2,185 of those located in New York alone while around 1,793 chose to practice in California.
General Acute Care Hospital providers have been assigned the 282N00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, General Acute Care Hospital specialists practice in 54 different states/territories and can be categorized into 4 different General Acute Care Hospital sub-specialties: Children's Hospital, Critical Access Hospital, Rural Hospital, and Women's Hospital.
An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.