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Title: Section 444.18 - Daily hospital services expenses description

444.18 Daily hospital services expenses description. (3250)

(a) Acute care. (3251)

(1) 6010 MEDICAL/SURGICAL ACUTE

(i) Function. Medical/Surgical Acute Care Units provide care to patients on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating of specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing of dressings and cleansing of wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering of patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing daily bedside care to Medical/Surgical acute patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(2) 6170 PEDIATRIC ACUTE (i) Function. Pediatric Acute Care Units provide care to Pediatric patients (children less than 14 years) in Pediatric nursing units on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating of specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing of dressings and cleansing of wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing the patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering of patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing daily bedside care to Pediatric patients. Included in these direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients less than 14 years admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(3) 6210 PSYCHIATRIC ACUTE (i) Function. Psychiatric Acute Care Units provide care to patients admitted for diagnosis as well as treatment on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. The units are staffed with nursing personnel specially trained to care for the mentally ill, mentally disordered, or other mentally incompetent persons. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating of specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering of patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing daily bedside care to Psychiatric patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers. (iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(4) 6250 OBSTETRICS ACUTE (i) Function. The provision of care to the mother following delivery on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans is provided in the Obstetrics Acute Care Unit. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Instructing of mothers in postnatal care and care of the newborn; serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring vital life signs; operating specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing of dressings and cleansing of wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids including I.V.'s and blood; answering of patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing daily bedside care to Obstetrics patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(5) DEFINITIVE OBSERVATION. (i) Function. Definitive Observation is the delivery of care to patients requiring care more intensive than that provided in the acute care areas, yet not sufficiently intensive to require admission to an intensive care area. Patients admitted to this cost center are generally transferred there from an intensive care unit after their condition has improved. The unit is staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contains monitoring and observation equipment for intensified, comprehensive observation and care. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing dressings and cleansing wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reactions to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering of patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing daily bedside care to Definitive Observation patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data Source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(6) 6290 OTHER ACUTE CARE (i) Function. Other Acute Care Units provide acute care to patients on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. Included are those units not required to be included in other specific Acute Care cost centers such as detoxification care (chemical dependency). Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing dressings and cleansing wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering of patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order. (ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing daily bedside care to Other Acute Care patients not required to be included in other specific Acute Care cost centers. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(b) Intensive care. (3252)

(1) 6310 MEDICAL/SURGICAL INTENSIVE CARE (i) Function. A Medical/Surgical Intensive Care Unit provides patient care of a more intensive nature than that provided to the Medical and Surgical Acute patients. The unit is staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contains monitoring and specialized support equipment for patients who, because of shock, trauma or threatening conditions, require intensified comprehensive observation and care. Additional activities include, but are not limited, to the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating of specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing of dressings and cleansing of wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering of patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing intensive daily bedside care to Medical/Surgical Intensive Care patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(2) 6330 CORONARY CARE

6331 Myocardial Infarction

6332 Pulmonary Care

6333 Heart Transplant

6339 Other Coronary Care

(i) Function. The delivery of care of a more specialized nature than that provided to the usual Medical, Surgical and Pediatric patient is provided in the Coronary Care Unit. The unit is staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contains monitoring and specialized support or treatment equipment for patients who, because of heart seizure, open heart surgery or threatening conditions, require intensified, comprehensive observation and care. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating of specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing of dressings and cleansing of wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. These cost centers contain the direct expenses incurred in providing intensive daily bedside care to Coronary Care patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to each of these units. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admissio n and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day. (iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(3) 6350 PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE (i) Function. A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit provides care to children less than 14 years of age of a more intensive nature than the usual Pediatric Acute level. The units are staffed with specially trained personnel and contain monitoring and specialized support equipment for patients who, because of shock, trauma, or threatening conditions, require intensified, comprehensive observation and care. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating of specialized equipment related to this function; preparing of equipment and assisting of physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing of dressings and cleansing of wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing daily bedside care to Pediatric Intensive Care patients. Included in these direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(4) 6370 NEO-NATAL INTENSIVE CARE (i) Function. A Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit provides care to newborn infants that is of a more intensive nature than care provided in Newborn Acute Units. Care is provided on the basis of physicians' orders and approved nursing care plans. The units are staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contain specialized support equipment for treatment of those newborn infants who require intensified, comprehensive observation and care. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Feeding infants; collecting sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring vital life signs; operating specialized equipment needed for this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during infant examination and treatment; changing dressings or assisting physicians in changing dressings and cleansing wounds and incisions; bathing infants; observing patients for reactions to drugs; and administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing intensive daily bedside care to Neo-Natal Intensive Care patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(5) 6380 BURN CARE (i) Function. A Burn Care Unit provides care to severely burned patients that is of a more intensive nature than the usual acute nursing care provided in medical and surgical units. Burn units are staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contain specialized support equipment for burn patients who require intensified, comprehensive observation and care. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring vital life signs; operating specialized equipment needed for this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing dressings and cleansing wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping them into and out of bed; observing patients for reactions to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering patients' call signals; and keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order. (ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing intensive daily bedside care to Burn Care patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(6) 6390 PSYCHIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE (i) Function. Psychiatric Intensive Care Units provide care to psychiatric patients which is of a more intensive nature than the usual nursing care provided in Psychiatric Acute Units. The units are staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contain monitoring and specialized support equipment for patients who, because of shock, trauma, or threatening conditions, require intensified, comprehensive observation and care. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting of sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring of vital life signs; operating of specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing dressings and cleansing of wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids, including I.V.'s and blood; answering patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(ii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing daily bedside care to Psychiatric Intensive Care patients. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses, and transfers.

(iii) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report patient days of care for all patients admitted to this unit. Include the day of admission, but not the day of discharge or death. If both admission and discharge or death occur on the same day, the day is considered a day of admission and counts as one patient day.

(iv) Data source. The number of patient days shall be taken from daily census counts.

(7) 6410 OTHER INTENSIVE CARE I

6420 OTHER INTENSIVE CARE II

6430 OTHER INTENSIVE CARE III

(i) General. Three zero level accounts have been established for this function to provide for the reporting of each discrete Other Intensive Care Unit separately. The designations I, II, and III do not represent levels of care. The function, description, standard unit of measure, and data source that follow apply equally to each zero level account.

(ii) Function. Other Intensive Care Units provide patient care of a more intensive nature than that provided to the Medical and Surgical Acute patients. The unit is staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contains monitoring and specialized support equipment for patients who require intensified comprehensive observation and care. Included are those units not required to be included in other specific intensive care cost centers. Additional activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Serving and feeding of patients; collecting sputum, urine and feces samples; monitoring vital life signs; operating specialized equipment related to this function; preparing equipment and assisting physicians during patient examination and treatment; changing dressings and cleansing wounds and incisions; observing and recording emotional stability of patients; assisting in bathing patients and helping into and out of bed; observing patients for reaction to drugs; administering specified medication; infusing fluids including I.V.'s and blood; answering patients' call signals; keeping patients' rooms (personal effects) in order.

(iii) Description. This cost center contains the direct expenses incurred in providing intensive daily bedside care to Other Intensive Care patients in those units not required to be included in other specific Intensive Care cost centers. Included as direct expenses are: salaries and wages, employee benefits, professional fees, supplies, purchased services, other direct expenses and transfers. (iv) Standard Unit of Measure: number of patient days. Report

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VOLUME C (Title 10)

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