Long-term limbo: Beds at care facilities are scarce; hospitals can't discharge patients without placement
Mary Thompson is a resident of Peterson Place Assisted Living. Long-term and post-acute care facilities are at capacity and struggling to serve everyone in the community who needs this type of care.
Many of Kootenai Health’s hospital beds are filled, and often staying full, with patients waiting for transfers to post-acute care facilities that are also at capacity and unable to take new patients. ...
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