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Hospital buildings have immense post-earthquake importance. Post-earthquake both structural and non-structural components of building should remain functional. Performance-Based Design is a powerful approach to structural engineering evolved from ongoing efforts to resolve the differences between the actual observed performance and the expected performance of structures. In this article non-linear static analysis (pushover analysis) has been done to understand the behavior of G+10 multistorey Hospital building located in different seismic zones (III, IV, V) of India having similar geometrical properties using SAP2000. The behavior of multistoried building has been investigated considering Immediate occupancy as performance objective in terms of force-displacement relationships, inelastic behavior of structure and sequential hinge formations etc. From the analysis results, it was observed that, when the zone varies from III to V, base shear, displacement and time period has been increased gradually, indicating the severity of seismic activity. Plastic hinge formation which determines the behaviour of the structure was studied.