Johns Hopkins hospital provided care for poor people who could not pay for medical treatment.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

Finally,he entered a hospital because he could no longer care for himself.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Kenneth Mays,international marketing director for Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok, says the high standard of care has been a drawing card.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The intensive care patients were then compared to elderly patients assigned to other hospital units or in the general Medicare population.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

Dr.Walter Mwanda is head of blood transfusion services at Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya's largest public health care facility.

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

"That keeps pressure off the general practitioners, the primary care physicians, and the hospital doctors.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

The head of the hospital's parent company, Memorial Health Care Systems, is James Hobson.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

"Everyone is entitled to free health care at the time of need, both in relation to consulting their general practitioner, and to hospital treatment and operations.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

But a study of elderly patients discharged from a hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) shows that almost 40 percent did not survive beyond the research period of three years.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

"We concluded that health care insurance plays a huge role in determining whether or not patients are able to come to the hospital promptly enough when they have symptoms of a heart attack."

VOA: standard.2010.04.18

And health care providers usually charge more. A World Health Organization survey of hospital and clinic births in nine Asian countries earlier this year found 27 percent were c-sections, and in China it was nearly half of all births.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

"Forty-nine percent of uninsured patients were more likely to wait more than six hours before coming into the hospital and 45 percent of patients with health care insurance but with financial concerns in accessing medical care waited more than six hours before coming into the hospital."

VOA: standard.2010.04.18