Understanding the Rural Swing Bed: More than Just a …
2021年8月11日 · "Swing bed" is that oft-heard phrase describing not a physical hospital bed, but post-acute care for the rural patient who is well enough to leave the acute care hospital but not …
Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) - Rural Health Info
2007年8月22日 · Swing beds offer an alternative to skilled nursing facilities. This option may be useful in rural areas, which are less likely to have a stand-alone SNF. Furthermore, swing …
History of the Swing Bed: A Look Through the Rural Rearview Mirror
2021年8月11日 · The healthcare delivery model known as the swing bed program has allowed rural and Critical Access Hospitals to serve patients by keeping them in their rural communities …
Swing Bed or Skilled Nursing Facility: Who Goes Where? North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center, Findings Brief, February 2014. • Victoria A. Freeman and Andrea …
The creation of the Swing Bed was done in recognition of the need for staffing and service delivery in small low volume hospitals. I quote, ‘to maximize flexibility of rural providers to …
Rural Healthcare Payment and Reimbursement
2022年10月20日 · The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approves CAHs and other rural acute care hospitals to furnish swing beds, which gives the facility flexibility to use beds, as …
Rural Post-Acute Care: Improving Transitions to Enhance Patient ...
2018年5月2日 · This article looks at how a tertiary facility's communication with skilled nursing facilities, a Critical Access Hospital's swing bed program, and a home health agency are …
Rural Emergency Hospitals (REHs) - Rural Health Information Hub
2024年2月16日 · Critical Access Hospitals and rural acute care, tribally-operated, and Indian Health Service (IHS) hospitals with 50 or fewer beds that were open on December 27, 2020, …
Rural Hospitals Overview - Rural Health Information Hub
2022年2月10日 · A swing bed is a bed that can be used for either acute care or post-acute care that is equivalent to SNF care and provides participating hospitals with the flexibility to meet …
Rural hospital closures –the future 17 Beyond scheduled changes such as 340B, closures could rapidly increase if: Bizarro legislation such as Brady and Neal Medicare extenders bill that …