How patients end up with 300 day hospital stays

This is what I have to deal with all the time

1. patient is here for over three months
2. trached, on a vent, PEG, etc etc, needs a Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) facility
3. patient is finally stable
4. take weeks to find an accepting LTAC
5. find an LTAC
6. something new happens to the patient (since they're so sick things eventually happen)
7. patient no longer stable
8. loses bed
9. go to step 3

Author: princetonwu