Source: Admitted patient palliative care and hospital-based facilities tables (114KB XLS)
Private acute and psychiatric hospitals
There were 300 private acute and psychiatric hospitals nationally in 2016–17. Of these, 24 (8.0%) had specialist palliative care inpatient units recorded. The average total number of specialist palliative care inpatient unit beds available nationally was 281, with an estimated 68,917 patient days and an average length of stay of 11.7 days (ABS 2018).
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