HEALTH FACILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does health facility mean? 

• HEALTH FACILITY (noun)
  The noun HEALTH FACILITY has 1 sense:

1. building where medicine is practiced

  Familiarity information: HEALTH FACILITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTH FACILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Building where medicine is practiced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

health facility; healthcare facility; medical building

Hypernyms ("health facility" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "health facility"):

clinic (a healthcare facility for outpatient care)

hospital; infirmary (a health facility where patients receive treatment)

 Context examples 

When you choose a health facility, you might want to consider: • How close it is to where you live or work • Whether your health insurance will pay for services there • Whether your health care provider can treat you there • The quality of the facility

(Health Facilities, NIH)