long-term care hospital

Federal-Provincial-Territorial Subcommittee on Continuing care [ Subcommittee on Continuing Care | Federal/Provincial/Territorial Subcommittee on Long term Care | Subcommittee on Home Care | Subcommittee on Long Term Institutional Care | Interprovincial/Federal Group on Continuing Care ]

hospital care

non-acute care hospital

Definition: Group foster care in which parenting responsibilities are largely taken over by some form of institution (such as residential nursery, orphanage, or children's home), or therapeutic care over a prolonged period in which the child is in a hospital, convalescent home or the like, without at least one parent living with the child.

extended care | convalescent care

hospital-acquired infection | nosocomial infection [ HAI ]

4. Believes that the negative effect – amplified in rural areas in particular – of disintegrating health systems on maternal health is of major concern, given the declining availability of beds, the lack of trained staff and the risk that (future) mothers will be hindered from going to hospitals when necessary, or will later refrain from doing so; emphasises, therefore, that such negative perceptions keep patients at home in the hands of female caregivers; insists on the need to invest in measures targeted at pregnant women, in order to provide them with adequate care and to build trust between ...[+++] female patients and caregivers; asks the Commission and the Member States to provide financial support for these efforts; calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement gender budgeting in all EU relevant funding, prioritising funding for women and children, and for sexual and reproductive health and rights;

ensure better coherence and continuity in patients’ progress through the system, focusing on transition between sectors and the transmission of information, for example from the hospital to the primary care sector;

‘Providers of ambulatory healthcare’ means establishments that are primarily engaged in providing healthcare services directly to outpatients who do not require inpatient services, including both offices of general medical practitioners and medical specialists and establishments specialising in the treatment of day-cases and in the delivery of home care services;

– make sufficient human, financial and technological resources available to ensure that care provided in the home or in hospital is of the highest possible quality, calling on them, in particular, to allocate adequate budgets to patient safety and to ensure that care provided in the home or in hospital is of the highest possible quality;