China's hospitals pilot companion-free care services
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Updated: 2026-02-28 09:27
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SHANGHAI -- China's hospitals are piloting "companion-free" care services to ease the heavy burden of daily care-giving on the inpatients' families.
The new mode of operation requires hosting hospitals to directly employ trained nursing assistants to provide 24-hour non-medical care for inpatients with particular needs.
Such services used to rely solely on family members of the inpatients or private caregivers they hire.
