AEGiS-APPJ: Nursing Costs of Skilled Nursing Facility Care for AIDS Patients

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Nursing Costs of Skilled Nursing Facility Care for AIDS Patients

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 5, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 64-67
James H. Swan and A.E. Benjamin

This article reports the first detailed data on nursing resource utilization by PWAs in a nursing home setting, providing some much-needed empirical evidence concerning the care requirements of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patient population. As part of a larger 1987-1988 study of skilled nursing facility costs for PWAs, we studied a free-standing, 16-bed, AIDS-dedicated skilled nursing facility in the San Francisco area. The facility was owned and operated by a private for-profit corporation but had been designed by and was operated in cooperation with a nonprofit AIDS services organization. It had no direct hospital affiliation but could access back-up services at a local community hospital. The costs of nursing care were based on facility-reported pay scales and nursing staff differentials. Data were collected on a total of 21 patients in the period from March to May 1988.
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