Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-stay
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hospital
▪ Surveys of long-stay hospitals exposed such anomalies in the 1960s and 1970s, creating much public concern.
▪ An internal 1976 report on Friern by the regional health authority's own long-stay hospital monitoring team was leaked to the Telegraph.
▪ This is particularly important in areas where the workload is even, such as many long-stay hospitals.
▪ This suggests that those entering long-stay hospital care present different sorts of needs from those entering public/private nursing home or residential care.
▪ Private nursing homes have higher levels of frailty than residential homes but not usually as high as long-stay hospital care.
patient
▪ There is a popular misconception that long-stay patients were dumped straight out of mental hospitals on the streets when they were abandoned.
▪ Only long-stay patients will be able to light up after May 31.
▪ De-hospitalization can be seen as a natural consequence of the decline in numbers of old long-stay patients.
▪ This would be in addition to the plans to house the long-stay patients in new buildings on the periphery of the hospital site.
▪ Any medication or dressings supplied to the long-stay patients would need to be logged.
▪ Despite the increased input, remaining long-stay patients in Powick proved fairly intractable.
population
▪ The then current trends suggested a further 60 percent reduction in the long-stay population within ten years.
▪ The main gap was in provision for elderly people with senile dementia and for the new long-stay population.
▪ Physical frailty and disability varies across the different sectors, being least in public residential homes and highest in a hospital long-stay population.
▪ This was to focus especially on the apparent difficulties of resettling the mostly elderly long-stay population of the asylums.
▪ It was focussed on a long-stay population.
ward
▪ The remainder would be in psychogeriatric assessment wards and in the long-stay wards of psychiatric hospitals.
▪ Bob recalls his first days as a charge nurse in the 1950s in a long-stay ward for elderly people.
▪ The long-stay ward is very slowly on its way out.
▪ Physically their new environment was a major improvement on where they had previously lived, a dormitory-style long-stay ward.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An internal 1976 report on Friern by the regional health authority's own long-stay hospital monitoring team was leaked to the Telegraph.
▪ Ensure that all long-stay care is run well and increase single room accommodation.
▪ Only long-stay patients will be able to light up after May 31.
▪ Similarly within a hospital the culture of the accident and emergency department differs from the long-stay geriatric ward.
▪ Surveys of long-stay hospitals exposed such anomalies in the 1960s and 1970s, creating much public concern.
▪ The long-stay ward is very slowly on its way out.
▪ The charges were not proceeded with when Jacqueline agreed to enter a long-stay residential clinic for the treatment of alcoholism.
▪ The main gap was in provision for elderly people with senile dementia and for the new long-stay population.