Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals Extend ICU Capacity for COVID-19 Response and Recovery.
Chest
; 159(5): 1894-1901, 2021 05.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1051537
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented novel challenges for the entire health-care continuum, requiring transformative changes to hospital and post-acute care, including clinical, administrative, and physical modifications to current standards of operations. Innovative use and adaptation of long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) can safely and effectively care for patients during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A framework for the rapid changes, including increasing collaboration with external health-care organizations, creating new methods for enhanced communication, and modifying processes focused on patient safety and clinical outcomes, is described for a network of 94 LTACHs. When managed and modified correctly, LTACHs can play a vital role in managing the national health-care pandemic crisis.
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Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Long-Term Care
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Critical Care
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Intensive Care Units
Type of study:
Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Chest
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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