PRIVATE HOTEL?

So by now I've had the opportunity to give my parents, grandmummy and a few friends from DC a tour of my new place via Skype. I always point out the hotel across the street from me.

Recently, I was out somewhere and someone pointed out a landmark to help me find my way via public transportation. I looked at the name of the hospital and realized that it had the same word in it as the name of the "hotel" across the street from me. I thought, "Wait that word is hospital, not hotel!" I don't know why I've been thinking that word was hotel. The word for hospital has the same background as the word for bakery and pharmacy (Persian I think). And the sad thing is I KNOW the word for hotel and it's similar to the English word hotel.

Anyway, it all makes sense now. I was very confused as to why it was called a "private" hotel (what exactly is a private hotel? Is there even such a thing?). I'd always thought the management of the "private hotel" was way too uptight (maybe a little strange) for making all of the staff wear scrubs! Yeah, you'd think I would have figured it out a loooongg time ago.......