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Death rates for elderly patients transferred to acute-care long-term hospitals increasing

New approaches to patient care at long-term acute care hospitals throughout the U.S. are needed considering that the survival rate of elderly patients transferred to such facilities after a critical

Hospitals face inpatient Medicare payment cuts in FY 2011

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) projects that Medicare payments for inpatient services at general acute-care hospitals will decrease by 0.1 percent (a collective $142 million) in