What is the difference between a hospital like Trillium and a full-service Community or Regional hospital (like Banner Desert Medical Center or St. Joseph’s Medical Center)?
General Acute Care hospitals, whether regional or community in nature, are the traditional hospital setting and typically offer a full array of services including Emergency Department, Surgery, Intensive Care, Labor & Delivery, etc. Over the years, the emphasis, for cost containment reasons, has become to shorten length of stay at traditional hospitals to the point where today the average length of stay for most patients is approximately 3-5 days. Although, this may be perfectly adequate for many patients, this short length of stay generally restricts the ability of the traditional hospital to design and deliver a comprehensive therapeutic program of care to the patient who may have more complex needs . Specialty hospitals like Trillium are designed around a focused niche of patients that require an extended hospital stay and therapeutic program. Thus, when certain patients are identified at the traditional hospital level as being good candidates for an extended therapeutic acute stay,
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