Skilled Nursing News June 24, 2021
One of the ways hospital systems across the U.S. tried to manage and maintain capacity during the pandemic was the suspension of so-called elective procedures – surgeries that could be reasonably delayed or did not create imminent danger for patients who put them off.
One of the effects of this was to close off a key source of referrals to skilled nursing facilities; patients who would normally go to a SNF for rehabilitation and recovery after their stay in the hospital. And for patients who did eventually go to a hospital for a procedure, those who could go home did. Discharges to the home health setting grew significantly in 2020, while those to the SNF setting dropped and did not...
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