Managing Director, Strategic and Operational Advisor to Rural and Community Health Systems
Swing Beds are an important and often underutilized asset at critical access hospitals. This white paper examines three years of data to highlight how swing beds outperform skilled nursing, see the details below. Thanks to Lindsay Corcoran and Dr. Carla Brock Wilber, DNP, RN, NE-BC, CATC, CPHQ and our Stroudwater Associates team for their excellent work on this important research. Our swing bed finance and clinical experts can help Critical Access Hospitals optimize your swing bed program clinically and financially. #ruralhealthcare #criticalaccesshospitals
In a recent study based on three years of swing bed quality data, our team found that Critical Access Hospital (CAH) swing bed programs outperform Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) on quality performance. The data comes from our Swing Bed Quality Reporting Program for CAHs and has been published in our new white paper. Key results include: - 73.6% of CAH swing bed patients were discharged to their community, significantly exceeding SNFs’ rate of 49.7% - 8% of CAH swing bed patients experienced unplanned returns to acute care, compared to SNFs' 11.4% - 9.2% of CAH swing bed patients had returned to acute care within 30 days post-discharge, whereas SNFs' rate stood at 10.5% Read the full white paper here: https://hubs.li/Q02JKWxr0 #StroudwaterAssociates #RuralHealthcare
