inpatient
- Such a program functions as an alternative to inpatient care, as transitional care following an inpatient stay in lieu of continued hospitalization, as a step-down service, or when the severity of symptoms is such that success in a less acute level of care is tenuous. (wikipedia.org)
medically necessary
- The length of your stay is determined by the staff based on your clinical condition, although insurance companies can independently decide if they no longer believe continued hospitalization is "medically necessary. (webmd.com)
partial
- The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) identifies Partial Hospitalization Programs as: "time limited, medically supervised programs that offer comprehensive, therapeutically intensive, coordinated, and structured clinical services. (wikipedia.org)
- Partial hospitalization programs are available at least five days per week but may also offer half-day, weekend, or evening hours. (wikipedia.org)
- Partial hospitalization programs may be freestanding or part of a broader system but should be identifiable as a distinct and separately organized unit. (wikipedia.org)
- A partial hospitalization program consists of a series of structured, face-to-face therapeutic sessions organized at various levels of intensity and frequency. (wikipedia.org)
- Partial hospitalization programs are typically designed for persons who are experiencing increased symptomatology, disturbances in behavior, or other conditions that negatively impact the mental or behavioral health of the person served. (wikipedia.org)
- Given this, the persons served in partial hospitalization do not pose an immediate risk to themselves or others. (wikipedia.org)
- Thus it is no mere coincidence that when the community psychiatry movement emerged in the mid-60s as a powerful force for profound change in our traditional practice, the concept of partial hospitalization, which can be traced back at least 30 years, became a symbol of the new social psychiatry. (springer.com)
- A doctor must evaluate whether hospitalization is necessary and appropriate and whether a less intense treatment setting, such as an intensive outpatient program or partial hospital program, may be a more appropriate alternative. (webmd.com)
- Once stabilized, the hospital staff is usually attempting to move the patient to the next least restrictive level of care, which may be a partial hospitalization program (where you attend sessions at the hospital during the day but go to your own home at night) or an outpatient setting. (psychcentral.com)
suicidal
- Many people with depression may need hospitalization because they feel suicidal or unable to take care of themselves day-to-day. (webmd.com)
depression
- What Are Your Rights Regarding Hospitalization for Depression? (webmd.com)
- The laws concerning hospitalization for depression vary from state to state. (webmd.com)
Clinic
- Care during acute hospitalization is provided by Clinic staff at a local Children's hospital. (dmoztools.net)
surgery
- Consultation, surgery and hospitalizations. (dmoztools.net)
hospital
- If a doctor believes that involuntary hospitalization is necessary, the hospital has the right to evaluate your condition, usually for several days, before asking a judge whether ongoing involuntary hospitalization and medications or other treatments are medically warranted and can therefore be administered against your will. (webmd.com)
insurance
- Québec and Canadian immigration law requires non-Canadian students to have valid health and hospitalization insurance for the duration of their stay in Canada. (ulaval.ca)
- As soon as they register, all international students are automatically covered by mandatory health and hospitalization insurance. (ulaval.ca)
health
- Alberta Hospitalization Benefits describes health law for the province of Alberta, Canada. (wikipedia.org)
care
- There was a time, not long ago, when the only treatment options considered to be worthwhile for patients requiring psychiatric care were the 50-minute hour on the one hand, or full-time hospitalization on the other. (springer.com)
- Hospitalization makes sense if you are so depressed that you can't take care of yourself. (webmd.com)
- A Medicare rule that blocks thousands of nursing home residents from receiving simultaneous reimbursement for hospice and skilled nursing facility (SNF) care at the end of life may result in those residents receiving more aggressive treatment and hospitalization, according a new analysis. (redorbit.com)
years
- Another study notes that about 1.14 million patient-safety incidents occurred among the 37 million hospitalizations in the Medicare population over the years 2000-2002. (wikipedia.org)
several
- After your hospitalization, you'll undergo a recovery period lasting several weeks. (princetonhcs.org)
