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Long term acute care hospital definition ******* Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals Robert A. Weinstein, L. Silvia Munoz-Price, Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals, Clinical Infectious Diseases , Volume 49, Issue 3, 1 August 2009, Pages 438–443, https://doi.org/10.1086/600391 Download citation file: © 2019 Oxford University Press Long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) are health care facilities that admit complex patients with acute care needs (eg, mechanical ventilator weaning, administration of intravenous antibiotics, and complex wound care) for a mean duration of stay of 25 days. LTACHs are different than nursing homes and were initially created in the 1990s in an effort to decrease Medicare costs by facilitating prompt discharge from intensive care units of patients with difficulty weaning mechanical ventilation; however, current admission diagnoses are quite broad. Patients admitted to these facilities have multiple comorbidities and are at risk for colonization with multidrug-...