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
  • His April and May fell away in a hospital bed, and he was released as an outpatient for June and July.
    Niko Stratis, SPIN, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Clients who live in Brooklyn might be assigned to an outpatient program in the Bronx, nowhere near a bus or subway stop.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The center is located on the third floor of the hospital and can service about 24 outpatient clients.
    chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • On the outpatient side, there’s a lot of concern about prescriptions not being filled.
    Chantelle Lee, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The man sustained cuts and bruises and was treated on an outpatient basis.
    Emily Schultheis, ajc, 24 July 2022
  • 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
  • Participants also had to come to an outpatient clinic to receive the treatment three days in a row.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The device, which is implanted along with a battery in an outpatient surgical procedure, is about the size of a key fob.
    Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Major health care companies now have procedure codes for the use of music in hospital, clinical, and outpatient settings.
    Daniel Levitin, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The health care system owns and operates hospitals and outpatient centers throughout Michigan, including through its subsidiary the Karmanos Cancer Institute, per the release.
    Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2024

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