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include antibiotics, non-vescicant oncology chemotherapy, and analgesics; (5) Stable newborns or premature infants under age one, who have been inpatients in the acute hospital for at least a week and cannot be discharged because they require any of the following services: (A) Monitoring episodes of bradycardia and apnea which are resolved by manual

stimulation in infants for whom discharge from a facility is medically inappropriate; or (B) Nasogastric tube or gastrostomy feedings; (6) Stable patients admitted to the acute care hospital for infections, who are afebrile for twenty-four hours on intravenous or parenteral antibiotics and undergoing twenty-four to forty-eight hour trials of oral antibiotics or being trained to infuse parenteral antibiotics in the home in

preparation for discharge to the home; (7) Two or more of the following services: (A) Tracheostomy care with suctioning required at least once a shift; (B) Traction and pin care for fractures (Bucks Traction is not included); (C) Medically necessary isolation precautions as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control. (Infection control measures for the care of decubitus ulcers do not apply in this category); (D) Debridement, packing, and medicated irrigation with or without whirlpool treatment, aseptic dressing changes, management of extensive (stage III) decubitus ulcers or wound infection, and JP drains; (E) Skilled nursing services including but not limited to the monitoring, observation, and care of patients with HIV infection/AIDS, patients who have terminal diseases, patients who require chronic dialysis treatment, patients receiving radiation therapy, patients receiving treatment for dehydration or monitoring of hydration, or patients receiving treatment for pain control who