Cynthia Mays
August 5, 2013
HCS/531
Doreen Gounaris
Acute Care Facilities
An acute care facility offers patient care services for a limited time to identify and treat an injury or short-term illness. They offer medicinal, surgical, pediatric, and emergency services. Some specialize to children and cardiac hospitals. In this paper, there is a discussion of the significance of acute care hospitals and what changes derived from the creation of the hospitals.
Acute care hospitals transmit to changes in health care because throughout ancient history civilizations care for ailing residents. Through these efforts at medication, contemporary sanatoriums and acute care centers were created. From doing what they could to reassuring a descending colleague on the combat zone, to treating a unwell relative in whatever kind of dwelling they called residence, the crafts their relatives erudited were conceded down creation to creation in which each creation humanizing upon the level of care.
The first hospital in the United States, The Pennsylvania Hospital, was founded by Benjamin Franklin and D. Thomas Bond in 1751. For several years this was the only infirmary in the United States. Its objective was to be concerned for the ailing, deprived, and if there was room, to be concerned for those who could pay. This custom lingered in effect until 1965 when Medicare took over. This sanatorium is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is still in use today.
Acute care has had an impact on health care because it gives the self-assurance of knowing that your sanatorium doctor will arrange and administer your management and will be continuously kept up-to-date with your development, just as if you were in an infirmary. Specialized one-to-one treatment during recurrent visits by highly accomplished and knowledgeable acute care nurses and physiotherapists.
The lack of apprehension, encouragement, and pragmatism of being in recognizable environments,
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