How is the 75 Percent Rule impacting patients?
o When fully implemented in July 2008, 75 percent of an inpatient rehabilitation hospitals or units patients will have to fall into a narrow and arbitrary category of ailments. This list of approved ailments under the Rule is short only 13 out of many medical conditions that require intensive rehabilitative care. o Patients regardless of their unique and pressing needs are being turned away NOW from the hospitals that provide them with the most appropriate rehabilitative care. o For those patients are treated in inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and units, the care they receive is often the difference between going home with lost function or mobility restored, or being sent to a nursing home and receiving care in a less intensive environment. o There is a big difference between an inpatient rehabilitation hospital and a nursing home, yet the 75 Percent Rule creates a barrier to inpatient rehabilitation hospital admission and pushes patients to nursing homes.
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