LTACH serves as a specialty-care hospital designed for patients with serious medical problems that require intense, special treatment for an extended period of time, usually 20-30 days.

LTACH serves as a specialty-care hospital designed for patients with serious medical problems that require intense, special treatment for an extended period of time, usually 20-30 days.

The hospital, which paused services after Tropical Storm Helene disrupted the City of Asheville’s water distribution system Sept. 27, was located inside Mission Health’s St. Joseph’s Campus.

As a result, an LTACH partner can produce outcomes that decrease average length of stay (ALOS) and improve patient outcomes and financial performance for short-term acute care hospitals (STACHs). 2.

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RehabCare Group, Inc., completed its merger with Triumph HealthCare Holdings, Inc., a long-term, acute-care hospital chain, in a transaction valued at $575 million. The combined organization will ...

Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, in collaboration with Affabilis, is converting part of Phoebe’s north campus into a long-term acute care hospital (LTACH). Affabilis is a Columbus-based ...

The closure of two Select Medical Corp. facilities last week are the latest—but likely not the last—casualties in the long-term acute-care hospital industry’s battle to remain solvent. A ...

“We have made the difficult decision to not reopen Asheville Specialty Hospital, a small, long-term acute care facility located inside the St. Joseph’s campus,” Mission Health spokesperson ...

Many LTACH providers are for-profit entities, but Community Hospital Corp. offers a unique, nonprofit model for LTACH development through CHC ContinueCare, the post-acute care company of CHC.