long-term patient
Extended care recipient
A long-term patient is someone receiving extended medical care, typically for chronic illness, rehabilitation, or conditions requiring ongoing treatment.
The term often appears in hospital and insurance contexts to distinguish from acute care: The facility specializes in long-term patients recovering from strokes.
She's been a long-term patient at the clinic for years.
- chronicPersisting over time
- hospitalizedSent for inpatient care
- hospital bedClinical sleeping furniture
- bedriddenUnable to leave mattress
- wardProtected person; division
nursing home · rehabilitation · palliative · caregiver · bedside · family visit · IV drip · feeding tube · medication · rounds · vitals · prognosis · remission · recovery · wheelchair · gown · chart · therapy
long-term patientER patient
Someone seeking urgent care
trauma patient · walk-in patient · emergency patient · emergency case · accident victim
long, term, longer, longest, length, lengthen, lengthy, lengthwise, longish