PSA: There *is* something between hospital and nursing home.

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I didn't know that. I swear I'm learning more about medical care than I ever wanted to know with all this stuff going on with dad.

 

Anyway, in case it will be helpful to anyone else...

 

There are facilities called "Long Term Acute Care" hospitals. They are sometimes located *inside* a hospital building, but they are a separate entity,

 

They're for people who need longer term hospital care. Like my dad.

 

They're much harder to find than nursing homes, and therefore harder to get into. But I'm glad to have found the option for my dad, and thought I'd share it with you all in case it could ever help someone else.

 

Man. This all stinks. Sigh. Anyway, pity party over.

[Twigs]

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[Pawz4me]

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My mother very recently passed away, after spending her final weeks in a LTAC facility. She was sent there directly from ICU, so there was no issue of it being hard to get into. Apparently Medicare (and maybe private insurance plans?) are quite picky about a hospital referring a patient to a LTAC facility that is owned/operated by that same hospital. Thus the reason for them being operated as separate entities. Or so we were told.

[m0mmaBuck]

There are also short term care facilities that specialize in rehabilitation. Some times they are referred to as "swing bed" facilities or inpatient rehab centers. Typically the patients have intensive therapies (i.e. physical, occupational, speech) for several hours/day and the goal is to discharge the patient straight to home without requiring any further in-home services (although PT, OT and speech may continue on an outpatient basis).

[Tammyla]

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Oh, yes, I knew someone who stayed in one after having surgery.