as in hospitals
a place for the treatment of those who are ill or injured
The university medical center just added a new cancer wing.
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Recent Examples of medical centers
That means many kids who live far from major medical centers — like Pray’s students in Moses Lake, a town of 25,000 that’s 200 miles from Seattle — won’t ever be seen at such a clinic.
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Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Thousands of striking Kaiser Permanente California health care workers walked off the job Tuesday at medical centers in Santa Clara and Oakland in a push for higher pay and better staffing.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
The trial, led by the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Davis will look at hundreds of thousands of mammograms at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's medical school, as well as academic medical centers in four other states.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Seven major medical centers have partnered on a $16 million study to find out.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Innovation is in our DNA, embedded in our strategic goals, and integrated across all our hospital departments and medical centers.
—Christophe Mouton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
And the notable tattoo parlors that offer this procedure—Sedation Ink, as well as The California Dream Tattoo and Ganga Tattoo in Los Angeles—tend to operate more like medical centers than studios.
—John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
But the Oxford Center is among the alternative medical centers or medical spas that, in recent years, have offered hyperbaric oxygen therapy for conditions that it is not proven to benefit.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 15 Sep. 2025
An office tower may look unattractive on paper because vacancy is high, but a closer look could reveal that the property sits in a desirable submarket poised for growth, or that new infrastructure, universities or medical centers are about to create long-term tenants.
—Jack Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
Thousands of striking Kaiser Permanente California health care workers walked off the job Tuesday at medical centers in Santa Clara and Oakland in a push for higher pay and better staffing.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
The trial, led by the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Davis will look at hundreds of thousands of mammograms at UW Health and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's medical school, as well as academic medical centers in four other states.
—Madeline Heim, jsonline.com, 13 Oct. 2025
Seven major medical centers have partnered on a $16 million study to find out.
—PC Magazine, 13 Oct. 2025
Innovation is in our DNA, embedded in our strategic goals, and integrated across all our hospital departments and medical centers.
—Christophe Mouton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
And the notable tattoo parlors that offer this procedure—Sedation Ink, as well as The California Dream Tattoo and Ganga Tattoo in Los Angeles—tend to operate more like medical centers than studios.
—John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
But the Oxford Center is among the alternative medical centers or medical spas that, in recent years, have offered hyperbaric oxygen therapy for conditions that it is not proven to benefit.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 15 Sep. 2025
An office tower may look unattractive on paper because vacancy is high, but a closer look could reveal that the property sits in a desirable submarket poised for growth, or that new infrastructure, universities or medical centers are about to create long-term tenants.
—Jack Mullen, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for medical centers
hospitals
Noun
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As Rolling Stone has previously reported, bogus images of classic rockers in hospitals or singing at the graves of other rockers have flooded the internet — fooling some fans in the process and provoking laughs in just as many.—
David Browne,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
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The two girls, who were both 17, were pronounced dead after arriving at area hospitals.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Medical centers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medical%20centers. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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