outpatient

The ground floor would accommodate the outpatients' department with 12 consultant/exam rooms, day case facilities and an acute paediatric assessment unit.

Under the critical access program, the federal government pays hospitals 101% of their costs for inpatient and outpatient services provided to Medicare patients.

The judge added that he had underlying chronic medical conditions but could have been treated as an outpatient.

Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, the regional chief of infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said she received many calls related to outpatient cases of COVID-19 while on call over the Labor Day weekend.

Despite more than four years of outpatient treatment at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and the local Macmillan centre in the Borders, Mr Owen's cancer had continued to spread.