How to Use inpatient in a Sentence

inpatient

noun
  • The one that’s been coming up the most in the last couple of weeks is on the inpatient side.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Most of the hospital’s inpatient beds would be moved to the new bed tower.
    Lisa Schencker, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022
  • All rooms in the trio of nine-story inpatient towers will be private rooms.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Another floor would go to inpatient care, and a top floor is set up to allow for growth.
    Anne Saker, The Enquirer, 21 Sep. 2021
  • And the strains on inpatient care ripple all the way to the emergency department.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2022
  • Hospice of the Valley has nine home inpatient care homes throughout the Valley.
    Neetish Basnet, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • When both girls are asleep, their mother Leslie gets a call from the hospital denying inpatient care for Rue.
    Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 14 Feb. 2022
  • In June 2014, Carter sought treatment for anorexia as an inpatient.
    Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Among them were 26 inpatients with an average age of 71.
    Nectar Gan, CNN, 19 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, St. Joe’s inpatient volume is up 400% from Thanksgiving.
    Hallie Miller, baltimoresun.com, 7 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Most of the space will be devoted to inpatient and outpatient care with a new entrance and lobby for the hospital.
    Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 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
  • The inpatient unit became kind of a holding area for these kids, with more than a doubling of eating-disorder patients.
    New York Times, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Elsewhere during the visit, the royal met patients and clinical staff in the Medlock Unit and William Budd inpatient ward.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
  • An angular canal cuts through the center of the site to separate inpatient and outpatient wings.
    CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
  • On June 10, a local mental-health provider, Pathways, worked on an inpatient placement.
    C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The nonprofit is one of the most prominent providers of inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment for youth and adults up to 21-years-old in central Iowa.
    Linh Ta, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Some patients are waiting for hours or days in emergency departments for inpatient beds to open up.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Seven years ago when IU Health first announced plans to build a new downtown health center, the focus was on shifting the balance from inpatient to outpatient care.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The other is a conversation between a foolish halfling and an inpatient old wizard.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023

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