Nurses' retention and hospital characteristics in New South Wales, CHERE Discussion Paper No 52

HOSPITAL TYPE

DESCRIPTION

Principal Referral

Acute hospitals, treating over 25,000 acute case-mix weighted
separations per annum.

Paediatric Specialist

Establishments where the primary role is to provide specialist acute
care services for children.

Major Metropolitan

Acute hospitals, treating between 10,000 and 25,000 acute case-mix
weighted separations per annum.

Major Non-Metropolitan

Establishments located in rural areas providing acute specialist
and referral services for a catchment population from a large
geographical area.

District Group 1

Acute hospitals, treating between 5,000 and 10,000 acute casemix
weighted separations per annum.

District Group 2

Acute hospitals, treating between 2,000 and 5,000 acute case-mix
weighted separations per annum, plus acute hospitals treating less
than 2,000 acute case-mix weighted separations per annum but with
more than 2,000 separations per annum

Community Acute

Acute hospitals, treating less than 2,000 acute case-mix weighted
separations per annum, and less than 2,000 separations per annum,
and with less than 40% non-acute and outlier bed days of total
bed days.

Ungrouped Acute

Establishments which have a primary role in providing acute services,
but have no logical peer within the State.

Community Non-Acute

Acute hospitals, treating less than 2,000 acute case-mix weighted
separations per annum, and less than 2,000 separations per annum,
and with more than 40% non-acute and outlier bed days of total
bed days.

Psychiatric

Establishments devoted primarily to the treatment and care of
inpatients with psychiatric, mental or behavioural disorders. Centres of
non-acute treatment of drug dependence, developmental and
intellectual disability are not included here. This group also excludes
institutions mainly providing living quarters or day care.