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.
Curative care is effort made to improve or cure a health condition. Palliative care is efforts made to lessen the suffering, discomfort or pain of end-of-life. Modern cancer treatments would be considered a curative care, because efforts are made to stop the cancer.