Sanatorium vs. Institution

A sanatorium (also spelled sanitarium or sanitorium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with the treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics. A distinction is sometimes made between "sanitarium" or the east-European "sanatorium" (a kind of health resort, as in the Battle Creek Sanitarium) and "sanatorium" (a hospital).

Institutions, according to Samuel P. Huntington, are "stable, valued, recurring patterns of behavior". Institutions can refer to mechanisms which govern the behavior of a set of individuals within a given community, and are identified with a social purpose, transcending individuals and intentions by mediating the rules that govern living behavior.

an establishment for the medical treatment of people who are convalescing or have a chronic illness.

The act of instituting

An institution for the treatment of chronic diseases or for medically supervised recuperation.

A custom, practice, relationship, or behavioral pattern of importance in the life of a community or society

A resort for improvement or maintenance of health, especially for convalescents. Also called sanitarium.

(Informal) One long associated with a specified place, position, or function.

An institution that treats chronic diseases, and provides supervised recuperation and convalescence.

An established organization or foundation, especially one dedicated to education, public service, or culture.

An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.

A building or complex of buildings housing such an organization.

a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases

A building or complex of buildings housing people who need special services, such as orphans or people with mental disabilities.

pejorative terms for an insane asylum

A custom or practice of a society or community.

A long established and respected organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.

The building or buildings which house such an organization.

A mental institution.

(informal) Any long established and respected place or business.

(informal) A person long established in a place, position, or field.

The act of instituting something.

(Christianity) The act by which a bishop commits a cure of souls to a priest. en

(obsolete) That which institutes or instructs, particularly a textbook or system of elements or rules.

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

Instruction; education.

That which instituted or established

An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution.

That which institutes or instructs; a textbook; a system of elements or rules; an institute.

an organization founded and united for a specific purpose

an establishment consisting of a building or complex of buildings where an organization for the promotion of some cause is situated

a custom that for a long time has been an important feature of some group or society;

the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new;

a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person