Patient Days definition

Patient Days means the total number of patients occupying beds in a long term care facility for all days in the calendar period for which an assessment is being reported and paid. For purposes of this subsection, if a long term care facility patient is admitted and discharged on the same day, the patient shall be deemed to occupy a bed for one day.

Patient Days means total patient days, inclusive of paid leave days, from the most recently desk reviewed or field audited cost report.

Patient Days means the total number of days of service provided to inpatients over a 12-month period, usually expressed as annual patient days measured. This figure includes observation days if the observation patient occupies a bed that is included in IDPH's Inventory of Health Care Facilities and Services and Need Determinations.

Examples of Patient Days in a sentence

• Continuous Care Days Billed: Provide the total number of Continuous Care level care Patient Days billed during the reporting period.

• Step 1: Calculate the average daily census (ADC) in the base year by dividing the base year patient days by 365 [(Base Year ADC) = (Base Year Patient Days) ÷ 365].

• Routine Home Care Days: Provide the total number of Routine In-Home level care Patient Days provided during the reporting period.

• Total In-Home Patient Days: The sum of Routine Home Care Days (C1a.) and Continuous Care Days Billed (C1b.).

• Total Patient Days (Deaths and Discharges): Report Total Patient Days of care provided, regardless of admission date or number of times admitted, for all patients whose care ended (death/discharge/revocation/transfer) during the reporting period.

More Definitions of Patient Days

Patient Days means the number of days of inpatient services based on the most recent full year of hospital discharge data or the annual hospital questionnaire.

Patient Days means the total number of days of service provided to inpatients of a facility over a 12- month period. This figure includes observation days if the observation patient occupies a bed that is included in the State Agency's Inventory of Health Care Facilities and Services as described in Section 1100.70.

Patient Days means the number of patients in a nursing facility as determined by the midnight census.

Patient Days means the day of admission plus each additional day of stay, but not the day of discharge, unless it is also the day of admission.

Patient Days as defined by CHARS means a unit of measure denoting lodging facilities provided and services rendered to one inpatient between the census taking hour on two successive days. Synonymous terms: inpatient day, inpatient service day, census day, bed occupancy day.

Patient Days means the sum of all census days less the sum of all leave days (authorized or unauthorized absences when patient is not under direct supervision of psychiatric care setting staff).

Patient Days means the total number of pa- tients occupying beds in a long term care facility for all days in the calendar period for which an assessment is being reported and paid. For purposes of this sub- section, if a long term care facility patient is admitted and discharged on the same day, the patient shall be deemed to occupy a bed for one day. [2003 c.736 §15; 2005 c.757 §3; 2007 c.70 §358; 2007 c.780 §7]