Differences between subacute care and long term care include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. Subacute care is more costly than long term care.
b. Patients who receive subacute care have a usual length of stay of 1 month; long term care patients have an indefinite length of stay.
c. Medicare covers the costs of both sub-acute and long term care.
d. Subacute patients tend to be younger and more cognitively intact.
e. Subacute care is usually delivered in a hospital setting and long term care in a nursing home setting.
ANS: A, B, D
Subacute care is more intensive than traditional nursing home care and several times more costly. For subacute patients, the expectation is that the patient will be discharged home or to a less in-tensive setting, and the length of stay is usually 1 month or less. Subacute care is largely reim-bursed by Medicare. Patients in subacute units are usually younger and less likely to be cogni-tively impaired than those in traditional nursing home care. Both subacute and long term care are delivered in a nursing home setting.
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