Grant Asay, the recently promoted executive vice president of operations for LifeCare Hospitals, which operates 19 specialty long-term acute-care hospitals across the United States, discusses the ...

Long-term acute care hospitals (LTCHs) are common sites of post-acute care for patients recovering from severe respiratory failure requiring long-term mechanical ventilation. Because of longer lengths ...

The hospital’s long-term acute care services have stopped accepting new patients and will transition operations on April 27, according to a March 27 news release from UT Health East Texas. Employees ...

(Boston)—Long-term acute care hospitals (LTCHs) are common sites of post-acute care for patients recovering from severe respiratory failure requiring long-term mechanical ventilation. Because of ...

Data on the organisms came from 35 healthcare facilities in California; 16 were nursing homes, 16 were hospitals and three were long-term acute care hospitals. The interventions that helped included ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Health leaders are celebrating an exciting expansion to one of their facilities. Leaders with Huntsville Hospital hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of ...

ASHEVILLE – HCA Healthcare-owned Mission Health has permanently closed Asheville Specialty Hospital, its 34-bed long-term acute care facility, the health system said. Mission Hospital is seen from ...

A new long-term acute care hospital has opened its doors in Cape Girardeau, providing what administrators describe as a facility for those with "medically complex" conditions who require longer ...

Across New York, elderly and medically fragile patients sit in hospital beds for days — sometimes weeks — not because they ...

Expanding the types of conditions for which hospital patients can be discharged early to post-acute care, forgoing full prospective payment, could save the Medicare system millions of dollars annually ...