How to Use inpatient in a Sentence

inpatient

noun
  • All rooms in the trio of nine-story inpatient towers will be private rooms.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Each lab is focused on different sets of abilities, and the floors are split between the inpatient rooms for that lab on one side and the work area on the other.
    Shanzeh Ahmad, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Among them were 26 inpatients with an average age of 71.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That way, the need for inpatient care will be reduced, as needs are met in a more effective and therapeutic way.
    Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • Thirty days of inpatient treatment followed, then placement in a clean-and-sober house in White Center.
    Sara Jean Green, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The students will be with us during the inpatient and outpatient settings.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Still, a great deal of money went to detox facilities and to groups that provide inpatient treatment.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The health plan said that more than 97% of the time, its turnaround times were within 72 hours for authorizing inpatient care for urgent cases.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Still, others couldn’t help but feel a little inpatient and puzzled.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2022
  • On June 10, a local mental-health provider, Pathways, worked on an inpatient placement.
    C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Card received about two weeks of inpatient psychiatric treatment, the person said.
    Mark Berman, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In the wake of the allegations, LaBeouf split from his agency and entered an inpatient facility.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Data shows poor access to inpatient treatment for alcoholism for tribes across the country.
    Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The researchers noted that these rates are on par with what is also seen in primary care and hospital inpatient settings.
    Nadia Kounang, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The other is a conversation between a foolish halfling and an inpatient old wizard.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That ties up beds in the hospital, gumming up the usual flow of patients from the emergency department into inpatient beds.
    Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • Every inpatient bed at Comer Children’s Hospital in Chicago has been full for more than six weeks.
    Aria Bendix, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • He was transferred to an inpatient mental health treatment program.
    Gina Barton, USA Today, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Fetterman was discharged after six weeks of inpatient treatment and is expected to return to the Capitol next week.
    Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The vast majority of people don’t need inpatient care or mobile crisis teams.
    Alice Park, Time, 18 July 2023
  • The team-rounding that was touted as the future of inpatient care was restricted to one part of one floor of one hospital in a 4-hospital institution.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The four-story addition at the northwest campus will connect to the current floors of the hospital while adding inpatient beds, operating rooms and a new endoscopy suite.
    Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 5 Aug. 2023
  • On top of the lobby expansion, the project will provide five new levels of inpatient care floors, with four planned for immediate construction, according to the plans.
    Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • In fact, his July relapse occurred just days after returning home from a six-month stint in an inpatient rehab program.
    Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The new policy, which the VA will announce Friday, will include up to 30 days of inpatient or crisis residential care and up to 90 days of follow-on outpatient care.
    Courtney Kube, NBC News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • In her view, the biggest gaps in the system were medical: detox and inpatient rehabilitation.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The funding page noted that Peluso lacked health insurance in the U.S. and had left his wife and children to seek treatment at an inpatient mental health rehab center in Tennessee.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Mental health benefits More than two-thirds (71%) of them don’t know Medicare covers inpatient and mental health treatment.
    Richard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 20 Nov. 2023
  • He is expected to remain at the AbilityLab for inpatient rehabilitation for the next six to 12 weeks.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • North Star is one of the only places to offer hospital-level psychiatric care for adolescents in Alaska, and the only to offer acute inpatient care for kids under 13.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Oct. 2022

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