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Setting up a step-down unit
Author(s)Emma Savage, Joan Melville
Journal titleManaging Community Care, vol 6, issue 4, August 1998
Pagespp 171-175
KeywordsHalfway houses ; Admission [hospitals] ; Coordination ; Health Authorities and Trusts ; Plymouth.
AnnotationThe Step-Down Unit was set up in September 1996 as a joint venture between Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Plymouth Community Health Services NHS Trust. It offered a post-acute facility for those patients needing a short period of recovery, transfer to another facility such as a nursing home, or rehousing. This paper reports on how the Unit was set up, and some of the outcomes in the first year, including relieving bed-blocking pressures experienced by hospital acute units. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-981120007 A
ClassmarkLDH: LD:QKH: QAJ: L4A: 8DEG

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