Most of the community hospitals are of general type and they offer the facilities which are same as in general hospital. Usually community hospitals admit patients for short term and they treat acute illness. For the longer term treatment, usually specialized hospitals and clinics are concerned but some general hospitals call specialized doctors for setting up patients with specialized treatment in the hospital and they hire the specialized equipment from other hospitals for curing patient in long term.

Any community hospital can be bigger with providing numerous facilities, usually a community hospital have around 200 beds and it can have a pharmacy, x-ray and physical therapy departments, and they have nursing staff along with professional medical staff and they have diagnostic equipment. Operating rooms, outpatient departments and recovery rooms can also be present in general hospitals. Emergency department is necessary in any general hospital. It can also have a maternity room which may only have nursery and delivery room.

They are the most common type of hospitals for dealing with injuries and diseases. Most of the general hospitals in United States of America also have their ambulance service. General hospitals admit those who come for diagnosis, treatment and they leave without staying (outpatients) and they also treat those stay overnight (inpatients). Community hospitals can be for profit or they can be non profit. The nonprofit community hospitals are served for religious purposes or for the sake of charity and poor people. One estimate shows that there are about 17,000 community hospitals in world. In larger cities, there can be various general hospitals with various facilities and sizes.