Community hospitals
Community hospitals provide rehabilitative and subacute services for patients' post-acute hospital treatment, helping them transition and reintegrate into home or long-term care settings.
Last updated 26 October 2024
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Community hospitals are intermediate inpatient healthcare facilities for patients requiring convalescent rehabilitative and subacute care. Depending on the patient's condition, the length of stay at the community hospital can range from a few days to a few weeks.
Rehabilitative services
Rehabilitative care aims to optimise function and reduce disability. This helps patients to regain and maximise their abilities to perform activities of daily living, allowing them to reintegrate to their home environment or other long-term care settings. Examples of conditions requiring rehabilitative care after stabilisation of acute issues include brain injury and other neurological conditions (e.g., stroke, traumatic injury, Parkinson's disease), as well as fractures and knee/ hip replacements.
Subacute care
Examples of conditions that may need subacute care after stabilisation of acute issues are infectious disease conditions including chest infection, congestive heart failure, ischaemic heart diseases, skin infection. Subacute care may also be provided for kidney failure and post-operative patients requiring medical and nursing care.
In addition to rehabilitation and sub-acute services, some Community Hospitals also provide specialized services such as dementia care, dialysis services, wound care, inpatient hospice and palliative care services, and chronic sick services.