Secular hospitals

Secular hospitals are hospitals run by secular, non-religious governments or organizations.

America's oldest public hospital in existence is New York's Bellevue Hospital which was established in 1736. The hospital, initially a six-bed hospital, was a municipal hospital created by a secular, non-religious government. Secular hospitals commonly perform abortions.

## Contents

* 1 Religious hospitals vs. secular hospitals: Quality of care
* 1.1 Quality of care in hospitals by religious affiliation
* 1.2 Atheist hospitals in China
* 1.3 Atheist hospitals in Vietnam
* 1.4 Atheist hospitals in North Korea
* 1.5 Atheist hospitals in Cuba
* 1.6 Atheist mental hospitals in the Soviet Union
* 2 See also
* 3 References

## Religious hospitals vs. secular hospitals: Quality of care[edit]

See also: Atheist hospitals and Christianity and hospitals

According to the Acton Institute:

“  |  Thomson Reuters has issued a new report that shows church-run hospitals provide better quality care more efficiently than other secular hospitals.

Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters, says, “Our data suggest that the leadership of health systems owned by churches may be the most active in aligning quality goals and monitoring achievement of mission across the system.”[1]

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### Quality of care in hospitals by religious affiliation[edit]

* Do Hospitals’ Religious Affiliations Affect Quality of Care?

### Atheist hospitals in China[edit]

See: Atheist hospitals in China

### Atheist hospitals in Vietnam[edit]

See: Atheist hospitals in Vietnam

### Atheist hospitals in North Korea[edit]

The psychiatric hospital Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, formerly called the Serbsky Institute, was used during the Soviet Union era to engage in “psychiatric terror” against political dissidents.[2]

North Korea practices state atheism.[3] The World Health Organization said about North Korea's health care system, "challenges remained, including poor infrastructure, a lack of equipment, malnutrition and a shortage of medicines."[4]

### Atheist hospitals in Cuba[edit]

See: Atheist hospitals in Cuba

### Atheist mental hospitals in the Soviet Union[edit]

The former Soviet Union had state atheism. Mental hospitals in the Soviet Union were used to persecute believers.[5] In the Soviet Union, many Orthodox priests and laymen experienced religious persecution in the form of torture and being sent to prison camps, labor camps or mental hospitals.[6][7][8][9] See also: Atheistic communism and torture

The psychiatric hospital Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, formerly called the Serbsky Institute, was used during the Soviet Union era to engage in “psychiatric terror” against political dissidents.[10]

## See also[edit]

* Atheism and medicine
* Atheism in medicine
* Atheism and health

## References[edit]

1. ↑ The Superiority of Christian Hospitals by JORDAN J. BALLOR • August 17, 2010, Acton Institute website
2. ↑ Korotenko, Ada; Alikina, Natalia [Ада Коротенко, Наталия Аликина] (2002). Советская психиатрия: Заблуждения и умысел [Soviet psychiatry: fallacies and wilfulness] (in Russian). Kiev: Издательство «Сфера» [Publishing house "Sphere"]. ISBN 978-966-7841-36-2.
3. ↑ World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia. Marshall Cavendish. Retrieved on 2011-03-05. “North Korea is officially an atheist state in which almost the entire population is nonreligious.”
4. ↑ "Aid agencies row over North Korea health care system", BBC News, 10 July 2010.
5. ↑ The Cry of the New Martyrs - Psychiatric “Treatment” of Christians
6. ↑ Father Arseny 1893-1973 Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father. Introduction pg. vi - 1. St Vladimir's Seminary Press ISBN 0-88141-180-9
7. ↑ Lyudmila Alexeyeva, History of dissident movement in the USSR, Memorial society, in Russian
8. ↑ A.Ginzbourg, "Only one year", "Index" Magazine, in Russian
9. ↑ The Washington Post Anti-Communist Priest Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 26, 2006; Page C09 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/25/AR2006112500783.html
10. ↑ Korotenko, Ada; Alikina, Natalia [Ада Коротенко, Наталия Аликина] (2002). Советская психиатрия: Заблуждения и умысел [Soviet psychiatry: fallacies and wilfulness] (in Russian). Kiev: Издательство «Сфера» [Publishing house "Sphere"]. ISBN 978-966-7841-36-2.