Hospice provides comprehensive and interdisciplinary health care to terminally ill patients, as well as bereavement and support services to the patients’ loved ones. Patients receiving hospice care forgo curative treatments. Hospice care is provided through certified hospice programs, and may be delivered in any patient care setting, but is most often provided in the patient’s home.

CHA provides state and federal representation and advocacy in the legislative and regulatory arenas to improve access to quality, cost-effective hospice health care services.
 

Long-term-care hospitals (LTCHs) provide hospital-level care for medically complex, long-stay patients. LTCHs meet the same requirements as general acute-care hospitals, but have significantly longer average lengths of stay of 25 days or greater. LTCHs may be freestanding facilities or be co-located within hospitals, and treat a wide variety of conditions, including respiratory failure with ventilator dependency, infections, complex wounds and trauma.

CHA provides state and federal representation and advocacy in the legislative and regulatory arenas to improve access to quality, cost-effective long-term health care services.

Subacute-care units provide a specialized level of care to medically fragile patients. Subacute patients are individuals who do not need acute care, but who are too ill to be cared for by most skilled-nursing facilities. Frequently, these individuals are ventilator-dependent or require frequent respiratory treatments. While subacute beds are licensed as skilled-nursing beds, they are reimbursed differently and are subject to additional staffing and patient criteria requirements.

CHA provides state and federal representation and advocacy in the legislative and regulatory arenas to improve access to quality, cost-effective subacute-care services.