Page 366 - Week 02 - Tuesday, 12 May 1992

Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .

---

MINISTER FOR HEALTH

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION 77

Nursing Home Type Beds

Mrs Carnell - asked the Minister for Health:

1. How many nursing home type beds exist within ACT public hospitals?

2. What percentage of total hospital beds does this represent?

Mr Berry - the answer to Mrs Carnells question is:

1. At Calvary Hospital there is a dedicated twenty bed unit for nursing home type patients, that is, patients who have been in hospital for more than 35 days and who are not expected to recover sufficiently to be discharged, but who do not require acute care. These beds are not funded by the Commonwealth as a nursing home.

At Woden Valley Hospital there are no dedicated beds. Numbers of nursing home type patients vary throughout the year. These patients may be accommodated in various areas as suitable.

2. In 1990-91 4.2 per cent of occupied bed days in the ACT

public hospitals were for nursing home type patients.

366

---

Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . .