Managed care

Managed care

A health care practice intended to streamline services and provide high quality, cost-effective care.

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accredited hospital

Health care; Managed care

A hospital or similar entity whose medical quality standards are accepted by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

swing-bed hospital

Health care; Managed care

A hospital participating in the Medicare swing-bed program. This program allows rural hospitals with fewer than 100 beds to provide skilled postacute care services in acute-care beds.

nursery

Health care; Managed care

A hospital perinatal unit for normal newborns that includes incubators for nondistressed, low-birth-weight babies.

A hospital unit that is approved to furnish the full spectrum of diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative services required for the care of end-state renal disease patients (including inpatient ...

renal transplant center

Health care; Managed care

A hospital unit that is approved to furnish transplantation and other medical and surgical specialty services directly for the care of end-stage renal disease transplant patients, including inpatient ...

neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)

Health care; Managed care

A hospital unit with special equipment for the care of premature and seriously ill newborn infants.

sole community hospital (SCH)

Health care; Managed care

A hospital which (a) is more than 50 miles from any similar hospital; (b) is 25 to 50 miles from a similar hospital and isolated from it at least 1 month per year by snow or is the exclusive provider ...