Prolonged stay at an acute-care hospital in Israel among older adults awaiting transfer to post-acute care: retrospective study on risk factors and consequences.

Prolonged LOS among older adults, awaiting transfer to SNF, should be suspected among non-institutionalized older adults with lower nutritional status and higher risk of pressure ulcers. The burden associated with establishing additional SNF beds, must be outweighed vs. the substantial infectious complications among awaiting older adults.