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
  • The hospital is at around 30% of ICU beds filled and 25% of inpatient beds filled.
    Rachel Leingang, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2020
  • 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
  • After the transplant, DiMeo was in the hospital for more than six weeks and then in inpatient rehab.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Mia, an 18-year-old inpatient on a psychiatric ward, likes to pull pranks on her nurses.
    Daisy Schofield, refinery29.com, 13 Sep. 2020
  • Hospice of the Valley has nine home inpatient care homes throughout the Valley.
    Neetish Basnet, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Hospital inpatient costs and other types of care picked back up in the quarter.
    Anna Wilde Mathews and Matt Grossman, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • Life Alert only lets you out of your contract if your loved one dies, enters inpatient care, or requires round-the-clock, in-home care.
    Sheila Olson, Health.com, 5 May 2021
  • At one point this month, 30 people were in the Regions ER waiting for inpatient admission due to lack of beds.
    Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • The counselors also can help arrange inpatient care or walk a caller through a plan to cope with their feelings.
    Yvonne Wenger, baltimoresun.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Through the 1980s, more beds were added to the Woodlawn campus, which provided inpatient services.
    Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 19 June 2021
  • Now it's been weeks since the hospital cared for a coronavirus inpatient.
    Heather Hollingsworth and Todd Richmond, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • This is an increase from Sunday’s 4,253 inpatient beds used.
    Laura Hancock, cleveland, 4 Jan. 2021
  • As LaBeouf works on his issues in the inpatient facility, he is said to be on an acting hiatus.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2021
  • Ohio now has posted three straight days beneath that figure as the number requiring inpatient care has dropped by 56% over the past two months.
    Randy Ludlow, The Enquirer, 4 Feb. 2021
  • MedPAC will also recommend a 3% decrease in Medicare payments for nursing homes and a 7% decrease for both home health and inpatient rehabilitation providers.
    Maya Goldman, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The 56-year-old has a criminal history dating back to age 16 and received inpatient mental health treatment as a juvenile into adulthood, according to court documents.
    Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 17 Jan. 2025

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