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Atertiary referral hospital (also called a tertiary hospital, tertiary referral center, tertiary care center, or tertiary center) is a hospital that provides tertiary care,[1] which is a level of health care obtained from specialists in a large hospital after referral from the providers of primary care and secondary care.[2] Beyond that general definition, there is no precise narrower or more formal definition, but tertiary centers usually include the following:

  • a specialty hospital dedicated to specific sub-specialty care (pediatric centers, oncology centers, psychiatric hospitals). Patients will often be referred from smaller hospitals to a tertiary hospital for major operations, consultations with sub-specialists and when sophisticated intensive care facilities are required.
  • Some examples of tertiary referral center care are:

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    1. ^ "Tertiary Care Centers - MeSH - NCBI". www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  • ^ "Definition of TERTIARY CARE". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 2019-05-29.

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