I liked one example in particular in Germany, and not just because I grew up next door. But with Parkinson's disease, if you live in Canada or the United States, you will never be admitted to a hospital unless you have severe pneumonia or you have a hip fracture and need acute care.
There are a few centres in Germany that actually admit people for one week with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and give them the entire workout to make sure the diagnosis is as good as it can be, that the support and ancillary services are initiated immediately, and that all the diagnostic elements and treatments, from occupational therapy to drug therapy, are all put in place.
An in-patient stay per 24 hours is of course expensive, but they've done some cost analysis and realized that the more effort they put in at the get-go, the outcome is better and the utilization of health resources can actually be diminished by doing it right at the very beginning.