How to Use outpatient in a Sentence

outpatient

noun
  • All outpatient clinics on the UNC campus were closed for the rest of the day.
    Itzel Luna, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The king is being treated as an outpatient, the palace said.
    Jill Lawless, Twin Cities, 5 Feb. 2024
  • For Williams, the most important factor seems to be the outpatient of it all.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 31 July 2023
  • That was followed by six more months of outpatient care and the psychosis was gone.
    Steve Appleford, SPIN, 31 May 2024
  • The surgery is performed on an outpatient basis and takes less than an hour.
    Oluseun Olufade, Verywell Health, 1 May 2024
  • He was released first to outpatient treatment, but didn’t last a week.
    oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The operation took place the same morning in an outpatient clinic up the street.
    Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 26 June 2023
  • Toomey, the Children’s executive, said both the sixth and ninth floors are used for outpatient sleep studies.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • According to the source, Bell was getting outpatient help for substance abuse.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In one video appearing to show an outpatient clinic of Al-Shifa on Friday, a young girl covered in blood shrieks with her hands held up to the sky.
    Josh Lederman, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The comedian left the center after a 10-day stay and continued with outpatient care for the burns.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The girl had just made her fourth attempt and had already gone through an intensive outpatient program.
    Maggie Jones, New York Times, 17 May 2023
  • The students will be with us during the inpatient and outpatient settings.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Today, the teen is making progress in outpatient therapy, hoping to return to school and soccer in the coming weeks.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • This type of treatment program typically takes place in an outpatient setting and lasts three to six weeks, eight hours a day, for five days a week.
    Antje M. Barreveld, STAT, 16 May 2024
  • Brian was making calls and doing research, trying to come up with an outpatient plan for Liz.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Mind Springs employs more than 550 people at its outpatient clinics on the Western Slope and the hospital.
    Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 1 May 2024
  • All of our outpatient clinics are closed on Friday, July 19.
    Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • For example, Part B pays 80% of the cost for outpatient care and a Medigap policy covers the remaining 20%.
    Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • After a few weeks, Naomi gained enough weight that she could be discharged into an outpatient program.
    Katie Engelhart, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The system operates about a dozen hospitals and many more urgent care and outpatient centers, after years-long growth around the state.
    Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The personal account is used to pay for medicines and outpatient costs, while the collective account is used to pay for hospital visits.
    Laura He, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In some situations, that work would be done through outpatient therapy, where a child would meet with a clinician once a week or more.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Eliana spent eight days in the hospital and then was treated as an outpatient at Edwards’ pediatric long Covid clinic.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 14 Jan. 2023
  • The surgery is usually performed on an outpatient basis with people returning home on the same day.
    Oluseun Olufade, Verywell Health, 1 May 2024
  • She is known to treat giving birth as an outpatient procedure and leave the hospital perfectly coifed.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • For most, this means spending upwards of 12 hours each week at a free-standing outpatient dialysis clinic.
    Carrie Arnold, STAT, 5 May 2023
  • Musk foresees a day when people get brain implants as a quick outpatient procedure.
    Ashlee Vance, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Patients received lifestyle guidance through the app on top of usual outpatient care, and 68% saw improvement in their disease scores.
    Mario Aguilar, STAT, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This is an outpatient procedure and usually only lasts a few minutes.
    Wendy Wisner, Health, 2 Aug. 2024

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