Focus would be on the Intermediate Care (IC) run mostly by NPOs which are subsidised by government and donations.
Possibility of doing a retrospective or prospective study
either follow the patient route from hospitalization to intermediate care unit
or create different strategies: hospitalisation, IC, and current status
Here are some resources for you. Thanks for asking the quesiton
https://www.treeage.com/industries/healthcare-analysts/
https://www.treeage.com/shop/treeage-pro-healthcare/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663855/
http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb185-Hospital-Intensive-Care-Units-2011.pdf
An analysis with TreeAge would work well if you would want to focus on resource utilisation only. A more holistic framework is called ASSIST founded on Cost-Benefit analysis and the UK Green Book on Public Sector Investment. It allows you to also included investment costs, included patient outcomes, dig into how a service becomes utilised over time (scaled up) and see how different stakeholders are effected. In settings like yours benefit shifts are quite common which may lead to veto players.
Some resources for you:
http://pilotsmartcare.eu/outcomes/service-implementation-simulator/
http://assist.empirica.biz/home/
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