Nurse-centered agencies appear to be most similar to
home-visit nursing services of Classification I in the latest
revision of the medical insurance policy in 2014.
Agencies of this type could expect to fulfill the standards
for highly functional home-visit nursing agencies that
can accept terminal care or high severity cases: ≥7 fulltime
nurses; ≥20 additions per year for home-visit nursing
terminal care expense or terminal care; and ≥10 patients
who are qualified and use medical insurance [4].
In contrast, the urban-centered agencies accounted for
approximately one third of all agencies. The main characteristics
of this type of agency are 4.2 full-time nurses,
14.5 patient deaths per year, and 7.9 patient deaths at
home. Similar to the nurse-centered agencies, they have
a relatively high acceptance of patients requiring medical
dependence services (80-90%). In comparison, the 2014
revision of the medical insurance policy’s Classification
II agencies are characterized as ≥5 full-time nurses, ≥15
additions per year for home-visit nursing terminal care
expense or terminal care, and ≥7 patients who are qualified
and use medical insurance. Thus, urban-centered
agencies are expected to play a role as Classification II
home-visit nursing agencies within the 2014 revision of
the medical insurance policy [4].