How to Use outpatient in a Sentence

outpatient

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  • 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
  • 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 girl had just made her fourth attempt and had already gone through an intensive outpatient program.
    — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 17 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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 the first time drugmakers will have to pay the penalties for outpatient drug treatments under the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Congress last year.
    — Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The royal source added that the King returned from Sandringham on Monday morning to begin outpatient treatment in London.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 5 Feb. 2024
  • After about three months in the hospital, van den Eijnden received nine months of outpatient treatment.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Over the next three years, the same process will begin for 50 additional drugs, most of them outpatient drugs but some of them drugs administered by doctors or hospitals.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 June 2023
  • The price decreases will only be seen for patients who access the drugs on Medicare Part B, the government outpatient care coverage.
    — Amanda Seitz, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Staffers from at least one outpatient clinic were being redirected to work at hospitals.
    — Julian Mark, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Health problems that required hospital inpatient or outpatient services, as well as care at home have grown roughly three times faster than overall inflation.
    — Medora Lee, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024
  • Intensive outpatient programs were down 23%, and partial hospitalization programs were down about 37% of staff, according to the CHDI report.
    — Jaden Edison, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2024

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