Why do ambulances take people from hospitals?

Question

I went to dictionary.com. I searched Ambulance. It said that ambulances take ill or injured people to hospitals and from hospitals. I dont understand why ambulances take people from hospitals?

Answer 1

from hospitals to the morgue

Answer 2

People can be moved from one hospital to another, from the hospital to a nursing home or rehab facility.

Answer 3

They also take people from hospitals to other hospitals or homes or other health care facilities

Answer 4

I think that was reffering to back in the day when doc's made house visits.  And sometimes when your released you may still be sick.  Although you don't want to stay in the hospital.

Answer 5

A person could be going to the hospital for physical therapy and unable to get to the hospital without an ambulance.

Answer 6

when ppl go to ospitals, they are usually unstable. ambulances are moving operation rooms so if the patient has a heart attack or something, it can be treated and they will have a better chance

Answer 7

Most of the time we take people from hospitals we are transferring them to another hospital for a higher level of care, such as a pediatric specialty, brain surgery, stuff like that, that wasn't available at the sending facility. we do sometimes take people back to nursing homes as well, sometimes a nursing home Pt can't just ride in a car, and have a medical condition the may need to be monitored. This is the same such case for taking people home with an ambulance.

There are many cases that the sending facility abuses this, and actually commits medicare fraud by falsifying forms to show a medical necessity for the ambulance transport.

Answer 8

Often transport ambulances are used to transfer people from different hospitals or to nursing homes.

Answer 9

To transfer them to another medical facility.

Answer 10

they take people from hospital to other hospital in case the first hospital can't do anything with that person

Answer 11

To transport them to another hospital.

Answer 12

Sometimes they take people from hospitals to nursing homes.

Answer 13

well if a patient is being transported to a hospital from another hospital, then either an ambulance or a helicopter would be used

Answer 14

yea the site is right some hospitals have better tools and machines for people . my baby cousin when he was born in Sumter ,south Carolina had to be taken 2 palmetto health richland because he needed better machines 2 teach him how 2 breath better .

Answer 15

If you don't have health insurance, they will take you back to your house to die.

Answer 16

Maybe from one hospital to another that might offer needed services.

From a hospital to the morgue (yikes).

From a hospital back home (after receiving raditiation/chemotherapy).

Interesting question!

Answer 17

They might be transfering the patient to another hospital for a number of reasons.

Answer 18

It depends, if there in icu, but they want to die at home, it has the equipment to transport them to there home, after a hospice has been set up, they will also ransfer patients from a hospitial not equipped to handle them to one that is. (i.e. smalltown hospital to loyala)

Answer 19

they may be taking them from one hospital to another hospital, or from the hospital back to a nursing home.

Answer 20

THERES 2 TYPES OF AMBULANCE. EMERGENCY AMBULANCE WHICH TAKES YOU TO HOSPITAL. AND PASSENGER TRANSPORT AMBULANCES. WHICH CAN TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER HOSPITAL OR TAKE YOU HOME. I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOU QUESTION.