Selected article for: "acute care hospital and long term acute care"

Author: Ambrosino, Nicolino; Casaburi, Richard; Chetta, Alfredo; Clini, Enrico; Donner, Claudio F.; Dreher, Michael; Goldstein, Roger; Jubran, Amal; Nici, Linda; Owen, Caroline A.; Rochester, Carolyn; Tobin, Martin J.; Vagheggini, Guido; Vitacca, Michele; ZuWallack, Richard
Title: 8(th) International conference on management and rehabilitation of chronic respiratory failure: the long summaries – Part 3
  • Document date: 2015_10_6
  • ID: 08fkra10_69
    Snippet: The non-intuitive term "long-term acute care hospital (LTACH)" is viewed as the antonym of short-term acute care hospital (STACH). The term originates with Medicare bureaucrats who define LTACH as an acute care hospital with a mean length of stay of at least 25 days. Prolonged ventilation has been variously defined, as greater than 2 days, 14 days or 29 days, and now is generally, but arbitrarily, defined as at least 21 consecutive days of mechan.....
    Document: The non-intuitive term "long-term acute care hospital (LTACH)" is viewed as the antonym of short-term acute care hospital (STACH). The term originates with Medicare bureaucrats who define LTACH as an acute care hospital with a mean length of stay of at least 25 days. Prolonged ventilation has been variously defined, as greater than 2 days, 14 days or 29 days, and now is generally, but arbitrarily, defined as at least 21 consecutive days of mechanical ventilation [61] . A number of different names has been applied to facilities focused on weaning from prolonged ventilation, including step-down units, respiratory intensive care units, and intermediate care units, which are located within a short-term acute care hospital, or a LTACH, which commonly is a free-standing hospital [61] .

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