All acute-care hospital trusts are supposed to become eligible for these freedoms by 2008.
It has promised to shorten hospital waiting times and to increase the number of acute-care beds.
New technology has made sophisticated care possible at various sites other than acute-care, high-overhead hospitals.
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Not having the proper resources to cover long-term care costs can result in a nest egg being used to pay for medical expenses, post-acute institutional care such as that which is provided at a skilled nursing facility, home-health care and other health-related expenses not covered under insurance.
Though bundled payment efforts have been tested in the past, Blum said none have been as broad or garnered as much participation from providers of medical care, particularly hospitals and post-acute care providers.
Steps such as these are especially important since more patients are receiving post-acute and post-surgical care in skilled nursing facilities rather than in hospitals themselves.
In the study, one on-call paediatrician was questioned in every hospital providing acute in-patient care for children.
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In Bradford acute in-patient care has been reconfigured to provide self-contained single sex units.
Addenbrooke's is working with healthcare provider MediHome to provide some patients with acute follow-up care "in the comfort of their own homes".
When Hebrew Senior Life asked patients at its post-acute care nursing facility in Boston what they wanted, it discovered many preferred to stay where they were.
Failure to implement a plan that is suitable for your financial profile could result in your receiving medical and post-acute institutional care that is of a lesser quality than you really need or would find acceptable.
Eight of these victims - who were treated on acute care wards for seriously ill patients - have now died.
LifeCare, the long-term acute care facility that rented space at Memorial, also prepared a statement for CNN.
Or bypass the family doctor, who is off for the weekend, and head to the more-expensive acute care clinic?
Health REITs, which make up 7% of the REIT sector, rely on government reimbursements from Medicaid and Medicare at hospitals and long-term acute care centers.
The focus is on acute care and life-saving therapies, but in the course of doing good we are stressing patients in all sorts of ways.
Our health care system is dysfunctional--first of all because it emphasizes acute care, which is the most expensive and least helpful form of care, rather than prevention, wellness and early testing.
And in a new study, the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) laid out just how unprepared many Americans are for even a healthy retirement, to say nothing of one tha includes significant acute medical problems and long-term care needs.
Acute care for mental health in-patients at Downe Hospital and the Ulster Hospital could be transferred as part of an overhaul of services at the facilities.
Our proposal would also bundle payments to hospitals to cover not just hospitalization, but also care from certain post-acute providers for the 30 days after hospitalization.
Twenty-four of the dead had been patients of an acute care facility known as LifeCare that rented space inside Memorial.
If that money had been put instead into pensions and indeed into funding health-care obligations the problem would be less acute now.
The consultation focuses on five areas - the midwifery-led birthing unit, accident and emergency and out of hours, planned care, acute medicine and children's services.
Lady Lister said the social fund provided community care grants and crisis loans which gave "vital cash assistance at times of acute need" to vulnerable people - such as women escaping domestic violence and young people who have left care.
The 40-bed rehabilitation unit treats patients with acute illnesses who require further rehab before they go home, or into a care home.
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