Charting the rapid rise of subacute care.
In recent years, healthcare entrepreneurs have found subacute care to be a profitable niche. They also fill a large gap for hospitals, which have been forced by market pressures to discharge patients quicker and sicker. While subacute facilities offer a less expensive alternative to acute care, some critics charge they skim off the best patients.
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