title: Move to outpatient settings may boost medical hotels.
abstract: The shift of surgeries to outpatient settings could be healthy for medical hotels, those amenity-equipped facilities originally developed to ease patients out of costly acute-care beds. Because fewer hospitals have a pressing need to use such alternative lodging, some medical hotels are hoping to hitch their fortunes to the outpatient trade, keeping patients overnight after surgeries that don't require hospital admission.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burns
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D003289:Convalescence; D006754:Hospital Restructuring / Q000639:trends*; D006798:Housing; D011383:Progressive Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013531:Surgicenters / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States