Declining capacity in acute care hospitals may indicate problems.(DATA...

Healthcare Financial Management;  June 1, 2007 ;     459 words ......total number of hospitals that provide acute care services remained relatively constant...hospitals. The number of short-term acute care hospitals declined from 1997 to 2005...period, the numbers of other types of acute care facilities increased. The number of long-te...

Gaining Entry-level Clinical Competence Outside of the Acute Care Setting

Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research;  April 1, 2008 ;   Lordly, Daphne; Taper, Janette;   787 words ......entry-level clinical competence in acute care facilities. The perceived...competence within long-term and acute care clinical environments were...les tablissements de soins de courte dure. Les risques et avantages...for clinical training was acute care (AC) ...

Occupational therapy practice in acute care neurology and orthopaedics

Journal of Allied Health;  April 1, 2002 ;   Griffin, Susan;   787 words ......description of occupational therapy practice in acute care orthopaedics and neurology by Australian...the factors affecting their practice in acute care. Therapists' primary aim was to conduct...practice ideals and the realities of the acute care setting. The most important factor ...

Helena, Mont., hospital anxious to provide more acute care for children.

Independent Record (Helena, MT);  April 30, 2006 ;     459 words ......well under way, with completion of the acute care center expected by late summer. It can...admissions, either because the existing 12-bed acute care unit was full or because the space available...director of management services. Having 20 acute care beds in the new space will not ...

Professional resilience in baccalaureate-prepared acute care nurses: first...

Nursing Education Perspectives;  March 1, 2008 ;   Hodges, Helen F. Keeley, Ann C. Troyan, Patricia J.;   787 words ......nurses typically begin their practice in acute care settings in hospitals, where their work...new baccalaureate-prepared nurses in acute care settings and to extrapolate pedagogical...years past, when a 30-year career in acute care was the norm, hospitals have had a dramatic...

The relationship between duration of physical therapy services in the...

Physical Therapy;  January 1, 1998 ;   Roach, Kathryn E. Ally, Deanna Finnerty, Brian Watkins, Dennis Litwin, Bini A. Janz-Hoover, Brenda Watson, Tracilyn Curtis, Kathleen A.;   787 words ......therapists have defended their role in the acute care setting by asserting the belief that...physical therapy on patient outcomes in the acute care setting. In recent years, efforts at...hospital stays, resulting in less time for acute care physical therapy. We can begin to infer...

Perceptions of acute care physical therapy practice: issues for physical...

Physical Therapy;  September 1, 1993 ;   Curtis, Kathleen A. Martin, Terry Dunleavy, James M. Moffat, Marilyn Kigin, Colleen M.;   787 words ......medical and surgical patients in the acute care hospital setting.[1,2] These trends directly...physical therapists for the changing acute care hospital practice environment. Since...due to inadequate staffing. Managers of acute care physical therapy facilities have particularly...

Misys Returns to its Roots: Misys Healthcare Systems didn't have to divest...

Health Data Management;  November 1, 2007 ;   Goedert, Joseph;   704 words ......effectively competing with the major acute care vendors, says Vern Davenport, executive...Davenport joined the company in February. The acute care sector is very demanding from a research...Va. Once Misys Healthcare entered the acute care business via acquisitions several years...

Acute care hospitals will be more acute.

Health Care Strategic Management;  May 1, 2005 ;   Johnson, Donald E.L.;   787 words ...Hospitals are going to be more acute care providers while integrated systems will...only they can provide. And charges for acute care services will rise on a per unit of service...dropped. Behind the transformation of acute care hospitals into even more acute care ...

Physical Therapy in Acute Care: A Clinician's Guide.(Book review)

Physical Therapy;  December 1, 2007 ;   Wells, Chris;   787 words ...Physical Therapy in Acute Care: A Clinician's Guide Malone D, Lindsay...text is to provide a reference on acute care practice for both beginning practitioners...special topics and very useful to the acute care practitioner. The majority of the...

Research Corner Outcomes in Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy: Acute Care...

Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal;  September 1, 2008 ;   Scherer, Susan A; Hammerich, Amy S;   787 words ......care settings. Outcome assessment in acute care settings, however, remains a difficult...conditions.' Medical outcomes for patients in acute care settings include complication rates or...therapists. Physical therapy outcomes in acute care, like outcome measures in other settings...

Acute Care Hospitals and Community Health.

Hospital Topics;  September 22, 2000 ;   Darr, Kurt;   787 words ......correct, to hear assertions that the acute care hospital should (and must) become virtually...logical extreme, this view means that the acute care hospital will become the locus and focus...cautions the governance and management of acute care hospitals to be extremely cautious in...

Managing the interface between acute care and rehabilitation - can...

Australian Health Review;  April 1, 2007 ;   Poulos, Christopher J; Eagar, Kathy; Poulos, Roslyn G;   787 words ......guidance provided by the tool. Consecutive acute care patients with a diagnosis of stroke...acute episodes, representing 2698 days in acute care, were analysed. In accordance with overseas...levels of inappropriate days of stay in acute care were suggested by the tool. Using the...

Dura Pharmaceuticals Announces Formation of Acute Care Division; New...

PR Newswire;  April 26, 1999 ;     787 words ......today announced the formation of a new Acute Care Division, during the American Lung Association...Society International Conference. Dura's Acute Care Division will service the hospital market...President of Dura Pharmaceuticals. Dura's Acute Care Division is designed to provide ...

U.S. Acute Care Information Systems Market Heats Up as Patient Safety...

PR Newswire;  November 29, 2005 ;     784 words ......Calif., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Many acute care departments continue to rely on paper-bas...improve patient care and safety. Today, the acute care information systems market is still in...scheduling tools. Vendors approach the acute care information systems market from a best-...