NY nursing homes admit more patients for short-term stays
Patient Safety Monitor Alert
April 16, 2008
New York nursing homes are having to take on many short-term patients in the wake of hospitals dealing with budget cuts, reports The New York Sun. Hospitals are being forced to treat patients quickly and discharge them, the article says, and therefore nursing homes are being forced to renovate and prepare for a shorter-term boarder.
The number of short-term patients in nursing homes has more than tripled between 1996 and 2005, from 29,000 to more than 135,000. Hospitals are being pinched financially and New York nursing homes are being restructured as a result.
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