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  • Kindred Spirits: This Health-Care Stock Could Surge 150% , the nation's largest provider of long-term acute-care hospital services, took a huge hit two weeks ago, after the federal government announced an 11.1% cut in Medicare reimbursement rates for nursing homes.

    unknown title 2011

  • On a positive note, on August 1, CMS released its final rule for 2012 long-term acute-care hospital reimbursement.

    unknown title 2011

  • The signing of the deal, originally expected to be completed by the end of last year, however, has been delayed by uncertainty over whether Congress will extend a moratorium on the building of long-term acute-care facilities.

    News - latimes.com By Ri 2012

  • As we know, when you get out of the regular hospital, there's whole variety of settings where people can go, in-patient rehab, long-term acute-care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, et cetera.

    unknown title 2011

  • Long-term acute-care hospitals also are an important part of the healthcare delivery system albeit it being a smaller one than skilled nursing facilities, they take care of much sicker, more clinically complex patients and get a higher Medicare rate, which of course we just mentioned is increasing in the fiscal year 2012.

    unknown title 2011

  • We also acquired a special care hospital, a 67-bed long-term acute-care facility in Nanticoke, as well as other outpatient and ancillary facilities.

    unknown title 2011

  • The signing of the deal, originally expected to be completed by the end of last year, however, has been delayed by uncertainty over whether Congress will extend a moratorium on the building of long-term acute-care facilities.

    News - latimes.com By Ri 2012

  • Those are all bundle -- those are all mixes together as multi-facility master leases with long-term acute-care hospitals as well.

    unknown title 2011

  • After leaving a Kindred acute-care hospital, for instance, patients may be able to do rehab work at a RehabCare facility.

    Kindred to Acquire RehabCare Group Dennis K. Berman 2011

  • Their wish was to provide low-cost treatment that patients couldn't receive in acute-care hospitals, and to take advantage of the desert's natural resources.

    Ford helped pioneer addiction treatment 2011

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