This chapter discusses types and classification of hospitals. WHO has defined hospital, and if we apply this definition, only very few hospitals will qualify to be called as hospital. Public hospitals are the hospitals run by Central or State governments, local bodies and public sector undertakings. Voluntary hospitals are registered under the societies act or public trust act. Nursing homes are generally owned and managed by individual doctors. Various systems of medicines like, Allopathy, Ayurvedic, Unani, Tibb, Homeopathy, have their own hospital. The hospital can be classified as primary care hospitals like PHCs, CHCs, secondary care hospitals like District hospitals and tertiary care hospitals like regional hospitals or hospital associated with medical college.