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Ambulatory Care Facility and Inpatient Care Facility

Differences

Ambulatory or outpatient care facility encompasses health care offered to a patient that does not require overnight stay while inpatient or acute care facility patients stay an average of duration of not less than thirty days (Gartee, 2011). However, in long term inpatient facilities, patients spend more than thirty days in the facility. Another difference is that ambulatory care facility has a simpler management…