Insurance Vs Nursing Home

Gabrielle, thanks for your response. I agree that insurance does have to be considered in each instance, however I guess I was viewing things globally such as in a hospital or a nursing home facility. Although insurance and cost does reveals the final outcome for home practices, on discard of course there may be other alternatives. However in a hospital setting or in a nursing home there is a standard of care that is always practiced or recommended for each patient based on condition or diagnosis. Working as a nurse in a hospital setting or as an Emergency Medical Technician on the floor we had standards of care that we followed that were our policy and procedures that we followed from the inception of the patient until discharge, it was