As the beds became tight due to the effects of the new coronavirus, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided to temporarily add nursing care fees in order to accept elderly inpatients with calm symptoms at nursing care facilities.
When an elderly person is infected with the new coronavirus and is hospitalized, physical and cognitive functions deteriorate during hospitalization, making it difficult to live at home, and even if the corona symptoms subside, discharge does not proceed smoothly. It has been pointed out.
As the beds were tight, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided to add a temporary nursing care fee to accept these elderly people at the nursing care facility.
The target is
▽ Special elderly nursing home
▽ Long-term care health facility
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Long-term
care medical
facility
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Long-term
care medical facility, if
an elderly inpatient who meets the discharge criteria is accepted, a nursing fee equivalent to 5,000 yen per day Will be added for up to 30 days.
It is assumed that we will provide services such as health management and rehabilitation by professionals such as nurses so that we can return home smoothly.
Cases in which a former resident has been discharged and returned to the facility are not eligible for the addition.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says, "We want to create a vacancy in the sickbed by having the nursing care facility take on the role of logistical support for medical institutions, and to establish a system that allows severely ill people to be hospitalized smoothly."
36 facilities are already ready to accept in Tokyo
According to the National Long-Term Care Health Facility Association, which is made by the Long-Term Care Health Facility, 36 facilities in Tokyo are already ready to accept such discharged patients.
Although it is unlikely that patients after discharge will transmit the virus to humans, these facilities will be quarantined in private rooms for a certain period of time just in case, and staff will also take measures against infection.
Although the cost burden is large, the association hopes to receive this addition and expand its acceptance to facilities nationwide.
Kentaro Higashi, chairman of the National Association of Health Care Facilities for the Elderly, said, "Even if clusters occur in long-term care facilities, elderly people cannot be hospitalized one after another. By accepting discharged patients, hospitalization of more severe elderly people will proceed smoothly. I want to contribute. "