answers: India
context: be coordinated with the patient prior to discharge to monitor the patient's progress as well as any potential complications that may have arisen. A 2016 Cochrane review showed some benefit to patient health when using individualised discharge planning over a standard format, though no reduction in health care costs. Inpatient care goes back to 230 BC in India where Ashoka founded 18 hospitals. The Romans also adopted the concept of inpatient care by building a specialized temple for sick patients in 291 AD on the island of Tiber. It is believed the first inpatient care in North America was provided </s> evolved an organized cosmopolitan system of institutionally-based medical provision. King Ashoka is wrongly said by many secondary sources to have founded at hospitals in ca. 230 BCE According to the Mahavamsa, the ancient chronicle of Sinhalese royalty, written in the sixth century CE, King Pandukabhaya of Sri Lanka (reigned 437 BCE to 367 BCE) had lying-in-homes and hospitals (Sivikasotthi-Sala) built in various parts of the country. This is the earliest documentary evidence we have of institutions specifically dedicated to the care of the sick anywhere in the world. Mihintale Hospital is the oldest in the world. Ruins of ancient hospitals </s> is among the first examples of Renaissance architecture in Lombardy. The Normans brought their hospital system along when they conquered England in 1066. By merging with traditional land-tenure and customs, the new charitable houses became popular and were distinct from both English monasteries and French hospitals. They dispensed alms and some medicine, and were generously endowed by the nobility and gentry who counted on them for spiritual rewards after death. The Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, founded in 1099 (The Knights of Malta) itself has - as its raison d’être - the founding of a hospital for pilgrims
question: where was the first hospital built in the world