A beta-lactam antibiotic and first-generation cephalosporin with bactericidal activity. Cefazolin binds to and inactivates penicillin-binding proteins (PBP) located on the inner membrane of the bacterial cell wall.
This incentive is reflected in the drop in average hospital length-of-stay among the elderly from 10.7 days in 1980 to 6.1 days in 1999.1. As hospital length-of-stay fell, the role of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), home health agencies, and other postacute care providers expanded.
Many of the patients who are currently in care have probably been there at least a year or more and are most likely to be long-term care patients. According to the data the average length of stay for current residents is 835 days and for discharged residents is 270 days.But we also know from data from the CMS that the average stay for a Medicare rehabilitation patient is about 23 days.ut in any given year, a large number of acute-care Medicare patients as well as some private-pay and private insurance-pay will cycle through US nursing homes on their way to recovery. For every 100 elderly patients in a nursing home in a given year, 38 will recover or stabilize so they can be discharged.