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Jul 17, 2008 6:26 am US/Central

MeritCare To Leave Transitional Care Business

FARGO, N.D. (AP) ― Fargo's MeritCare hospital plans to get out of the transitional care business, and work with long-term care facilities in the area to handle those patients.

North Dakota's largest hospital says its 33-bed unit for patients who no longer need full hospital services but are still too sick to go home will be changed to inpatient hospital beds. Officials say MeritCare has a shortage of those beds, and the move will enable the hospital to add to the total without a physical expansion.

The change is expected to be made within the next year and a half.

MeritCare says transitional care unit employees -- from doctors to dietitians -- will be given an opportunity to work in the new unit or possibly apply for jobs at the long-term care facilities. MeritCare says it's working mainly with Bethany Homes of Fargo and Eventide Senior Living Communities of West Fargo and Moorhead (Minnesota).

MeritCare announced late last month that it was losing money, forcing the hospital to lay off about 90 workers, reduce the hours of another 90, not fill about 120 open positions and make other changes.



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