When hospitals first appeared these facilities were only for the ill and the poor, these institutions were used to store human beings to keep them away from the rest of the population especially during times of epidemics of typhoid and cholera. The middle class never came to these facilities to receive their health care they had the luxury of staying in the comfort of their own homes. Not until the early 1900s when the standards of medical practice took a scientific approach to caring for patients did the ideal change of a hospital taking care of all patients not just the poor ones (Williams & Torrens, 2008). Acute care is one of the levels of care within a hospital this is when a patient is treated for an illness, trauma or disease for a short period of time which could have resulted from injuries or needing to recover after surgery. This type of care in general is administered to the patient in a facility by a wide variety of clinical personnel using pharmaceuticals, …show more content…
The function of Long-term Care is to manage critical infusions, continue the medical stabilization of the patient, and if needed continue respiratory functions with use of mechanical ventilation (Miller, 2016). The long term acute care hospitals known as LTACHs specialize in patients care who have become so critically ill and need to stay beyond the normal short stay requiring more specialized care than what would be available in an acute care facility. The LTACHs are not rehabilitation hospitals they care for the patient until they are ready to be transferred to a skilled nursing facility to work on their motor skills on their way back to a normal life or to nursing homes where they will be cared for because they can no longer live on their