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E F Goldman

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Variety of factors to determine potential nursing home market.

As the nation ages, how will hospitals and other providers determine how to care for a growing patient population--those requiring nursing home beds? In the following article, the authors discuss nursing home demand projection methodologies that could be useful for administrators who want to pursue this patient population as a market area. The plausible solution, they note, is a composite approach that focuses on historical trends and both clinical and referral sources.

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Geropsychiatric units.

Whether or not geropsychiatric services are developed by individual hospitals depends on several factors, not the least of which are current geriatric volume, physical capacity, availability of increased staff, psychiatrists' interest, community linkages, and perhaps most important, the facility's ability to modify its operational procedures as required. Geropsychiatry is in its early stage of growth. Southern hospitals that can overcome the operational problems of delivering inpatient care to this population will find themselves developing a market segment that has been overgeneralized, overlooked, and subsequently underserved.

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Making the best decisions.

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