Where is the Taiyuan Health Department now?

? No. 161, Taoyuan 4th Lane, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.

The word hospital comes from Latin and originally means "guest", because when it was first established, it was a place of refuge for people, with rest rooms for comfort and hospitality, and then it gradually became a professional institution to meet the medical needs of mankind and to provide health care services.

Hospitals refer to the laws and regulations and industry norms, for the sick to carry out the necessary medical examinations, therapeutic measures, nursing techniques, reception services, rehabilitation equipment, rescue and transportation services, to save lives and help the wounded as the main purpose of the medical institutions, the object of its services not only include the symptomatic sick and wounded.

It also includes the elderly who are unable to take care of themselves or whose activities are restricted and who are dependent on medical care, the seriously ill or injured who are assessed by the forensic physician to be dependent on medical care or whose condition is unstable and in need of long-term rehabilitation and frequent observation and examination, or who are in other specific situations and groups of people.

For example, healthy people (such as pregnant women, mothers, newborns) and completely healthy people (such as people who come to the hospital for physical examination or oral cleaning), initially set up for people to take refuge, but also have entertainment programs, so that visitors are comfortable, with the intention of hospitality, and later, only gradually become a specialized institution for the reception and treatment of patients.