non-acute care establishment definition
non-acute care establishment. ’ means any health care establishment, whether of a multidisciplinary or a specifically nursing nature, providing care after or instead of acute hospitalisation to an in-patient either following an acute illness, injury or exacerbation of an existing illness or as a result of a long- standing chronic condition, and may include sub-acute care, rehabilitation care, step-down care, hospice care, convalescent care and long-term care;