Arbitration Vs. Mediation. Terms: The main difference between arbitration and mediation is a simple one: arbitrators hand down decisions, just as judges do, which can only be contested under certain circumstances.
Definition of Subacute Care. 1  Subacute care is a level of care needed by a patient who does not require hospital acute care, but who requires more intensive skilled nursing care than is provided to the majority of patients in a skilled nursing facility.
Duration of care is also an important determinant of subacute care. Most of the definitions in the literature stated that subacute care has a definite ending point, although the duration of care varies from short term (3-30 days), to intermediate (31-90 days), to long-term (91 days-2 years) (Burk, 1994).