An Adelaide public hospital is using hotel rooms instead of hospital beds in a bid to reduce overcrowding and improve care options for amputees.
High demand for beds as meant amputees from rural South Australia have had rehabilitation frequently postponed because all the beds at Modbury Hospital are full.
Modbury's ambulatory rehabilitation clinical manager, Felicity Jenkinson, says there is an urgent need for creative ways to offer solutions to country patients, and a hotel model is one option.