chymotrypsin An enzyme involved in the digestion of proteins; secreted as the inactive precursor chymotrypsinogen in the pancreatic juice. It is activated by trypsin, and is an endopeptidase, with a different specificity from trypsin and pepsin.
The cost varies depending where you are and what kind of hospital you want. Here are some examples for you. Note that hospital construction cost is generally expressed in cost per bed. Two new hospital buildings are opening this year in Dallas, Texas. Both are big teaching hospitals and cost around $1.5 million per bed to build. The University of Texas Southwestern hospital (picture below) is over 1.3 million square feet and has 532 beds. It cost $800 million. Parkland Memorial, Dallas County's public hospital, is about 2 million square feet and has 862 beds.
Hospital and Surgery Costs. Total health care spending in America was approximately $2.7 trillion in 2011. A little over 31 percent of that amount, or $814 billion, was spent on hospital services. Hospital costs averaged $3,949 per day, and costs per stay averaged $15,734.According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the total number of inpatient surgeries performed in 2009 was 48 million.n 2011, Medicare spent about $549 billion for benefit expenses; 24 percent of that amount â approximately $158 billion â was spent on inpatient hospital services. Approximately 36 million patients per year are admitted to U.S. hospitals, and Medicare pays 90 percent of the costs for almost 42 percent of them.