Medical Malpractice

What's the difference between Private and Public Hospitals?

What's the difference between Private and Public Hospitals? Which one's better to work at? What are the advantages and disadvantages of private and public hospitals?

Public Comments

1. one says private and one says public. private is a better one to work at
2. public hospitals recieve government assistance, and therefore are required to treat people regardless of thier ability to pay. private hospitals, do not recieve such assistance, and therefore are only required to stabilize emergent situations and ship them to a public hospital when stable if they are unable to pay. I've worked at both and frankly, I preferred working at the public hospital. Not only were the cases more varied, the hospital was not quite so caught up in counting gauzes, and gouging the patients for every penny they could get. Although for the most part, private hospitals can and do tend to pay more.
3. Public hospitals are funded by the government and therefore cannot turn away patients. Private hospitals are privately funded and make their own rules. These are the hospitals that turn away homeless and uninsured patients, as the government doesn't regulate them. So I guess which one is better to work at depends on how you feel about that.
4. Funding
5. Private hospital's do not recieve goverment funding and has little perks. It's like a very expensive hotel. Your basically paying more money for the same treatment at a public hospital Public hospitals recieves public funding and serves anyone and every person that needs help. It's preference, that's all.
6. Public Hospitals usually have County, State or federal financial support. Those are the hospitals that medicaid patients and the indigent plus everyone else can go to. Private hospitals are not Government supported. Someone in careers needs to answer which is best to work at. I personally will only go to private hospitals.
7. a public hospital is funded by the govt cant refuse services is staffed by interns helps the poor and anyone a private hospital is not bound by the govt to help the poor not staffed by interns better equipped better medical care less hastle less humanity to mess with
8. Basically, private hospitals are owned by an individual or group and are "for-profit" institiutions. Public hospitals are often owned by large healthcare corporations and are often "not-for-profit" institittutions. Private hospitals get little to no money from the state or federal government and survive primarily by income generated by insurance contracts (often times these hospitals will accept state or federal insurance plans (ie. Medicaid or Medicare.) Public hospitals will often receive financial assistance from the state and/or the federal government.