Patient day definition

Patient day or "resident day" means a calendar day of care
Patient day means each calendar day in which an individual patient is admitted to the nursing care facility during a calendar month, even if on a temporary leave of absence from the facility.
Patient day or "resident day" means a calendar day of care provided to a nursing facility resident, regardless of payment source, which will include the day of admission and exclude the day of discharge; except that, when admission and discharge occur on the same day, one day of care shall be deemed to exist. A "medicaid day" or "recipient day" means a calendar day of care provided to a medicaid recipient determined eligible by the department for services provided under chapter 74.09 RCW, subject to the same conditions regarding admission and discharge applicable to a patient day or resident day of care.

Examples of Patient day in a sentence

  • We do have a Caring for Dying Patient day where Deciding right would be discussed and staff encouraged to use documents but many don’tfeel they have the skills Where does workforce access information re Deciding right?The GPs have access via EMIS (so long as they have uploaded the docs).

  • Patient day includes the allowable temporary leave-of-absence days per subsection (5)(D).

  • Patient day and admission projections identify increases in the non-Medicare sources, made possible with the larger facility, as the primary drivers for the hospital‟s growth.


More Definitions of Patient day

Patient day or "client day" means a calendar day of
Patient day means a day, which begins at midnight and ends 24 hours later. The midnight-to-midnight method must be used even if the provider uses a different definition of a patient day for its statistical or other purposes. Whenever a patient occupies a bed in more than one patient care area in one day, the inpatient day should be counted only in the patient care area in which the patient was located at the census-taking hour. The day of admission will be counted as a full day; however, the day of discharge is not counted. A full day must be counted when a patient is admitted as an inpatient with the expectation of the patient remaining overnight and occupying a bed, but is discharged on the same day.
Patient day means a calendar day of care provided to an individual resident of a nursing facility that is not reimbursed under Medicare, including the date of admission but not including the date of discharge, unless the dates of admission and discharge occur on the same day, in which case the resulting number of patient days is one patient day.
Patient day or "((client)) resident day" means a calendar
Patient day means the care of one patient during a day of service, excluding the day of discharge.
Patient day means each calendar day in which an individual patient is admitted to
Patient day means a period during which a patient received inpatient services with: