Prevention or rehabilitation facilities
In terms of the Hospital statistics of the Federal Statistical Office:Prevention or rehabilitation facilities are facilities according to Article 107, Section 2 SGB V, which serve inpatient treatment, in order to eliminate any deterioration of health which would probably lead to illness in a foreseeable time. Furthermore, they are facilities which serve inpatient treatment in order to counteract an endangerment of the healthy development of a child (preventive health care) or to cure a disease, to prevent its worsening or alleviate disease discomfort or to safeguard or to consolidate the treatment success achieved subsequent to hospital treatment, also with the objective of averting a threatening disability or nursing care needs, to eliminate them after occurrence, and to improve or to prevent a worsening (rehabilitation). The facilities must be under continuous specialist medical supervision and with the cooperation of specially trained staff they are set up to improve the state of health of the patients according to a medical treatment plan mainly by application of treatment including physiotherapy, kinesitherapy, speech therapy or work and occupational therapy and by other suitable means, including also mental and psychic influences. They are also set up to help the patients in the development of their own defence and healing forces and they are facilities in which the patients can be accommodated and looked after. The health insurances may commission medical services for preventive health care (medical treatment, pharmaceuticals, dressings, therapy facilities, aids and appliances, outpatient/inpatient preventive health care services) or services for medical rehabilitation including the therapeutic treatments after a stay in hospital (outpatient/inpatient rehabilitation), which demand an inpatient treatment, but not a stay in hospital, only in those preventive or rehabilitation facilities, with which a supply contract according to § 11 SGB V exists. Therefore it is necessary, that the preventive or rehabilitation facilities fulfil the abovementioned requirements. Besides hospitals preventive or rehabilitation units are survey units of the hospital statistics, to which survey sheets are sent. For the differentiation the definition of hospitals takes effect analogically. There are only differences in the aim of the facilities, which in this case is oriented to prevention and/or rehabilitation. In the Hospital statistics the facilities are differentiated into such with such without supply contract according to § 111 SGB V.
Selected information about "Prevention or rehabilitation facilities":
Tables:
- Hospital, number and stays, e.g. by facility features
- Hospitals / prevention or rehabilitation facilities, time series
- Hospitals, beds: number, per 100,000 inhabitants, utilization
- Hospitals, medical staff, e.g. by region
- Hospitals, medico-technical large-scale equipment units, e.g. by region
- Hospitals, non-medical personnel, e.g. by region
- Hospitals, occupancy/billing days, e.g. by region
- Hospitals, personnel, e.g. by facility features
- Hospitals, reference number by specialist departments (1991-2017)
Data Sources:
- Hospital statistics - basic data of the hospitals and the prevention or rehabilitation facilities
- Hospital statistics - basic data of the hospitals and the prevention or rehabilitation facilities - Methods [general]
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