When they are done on an outpatient basis, the very same procedures won’t come with a possible three-day stay needed to trigger coverage of skilled nursing care.

University of Utah Health’s ten inpatient acute care units provide a variety of care in a medical/surgical setting for adult patients. These are fast-paced nursing units that promote and support the ...

Skilled nursing leaders are renewing calls to eliminate the three-day stay rule in light of a policy change that the Centers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A variety of acute medical conditions typically overseen in a hospital inpatient setting can be managed at lower ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved waivers for six health systems to provide acute care at home. The hospitals include Brigham and Women's Hospital in Massachusetts; Huntsman ...

All post-acute settings are not created equal.1 The growing rate of skilled nursing facility (SNF) closures has only reinforced this gap in care quality, leaving patients and hospitals straining to ...

Certain programs designed to keep patients out of the hospital are safe for some acute conditions, research shows. Several methods designed to keep patients out of the hospital are safe, according to ...

Older adults regularly report a preference to age in place, and new data show that hospitals are increasingly referring ...

Congress’ Medicare advisory committee has made it clear that much work still needs to be done to bring alignment to post-acute care regulatory and payment matters. Medicare Payment Advisory Commission ...

Vibra Healthcare, which operates Oregon’s sole long-term acute care hospital in Portland, plans to shut down operations early next year and lay off its entire workforce of 310 employees.