Swing Bed Quality Reporting Measures

Federal and State Regulations provide plenty of direction for measuring quality of skilled nursing/swing bed care as a method to protect the patient and by establishing measures to compare program to program, program to state, program to federal, state to state, etc. What is overlooked in this pressure-packed approach to make sure every healthcare professional is writing what they need to document so the measure can be judged . . . so that all the measures can be judged . . .is the basic human/professional interaction with patients. Quality is defined by regulatory measures; but quality is created in one-to-one interactions, teamwork, and outcomes ‘judged” successful by the patient. When reviewing one, teams cannot forget to review the other component of quality – human interaction.

Choose the course that fits based on your hospitals designation as a CAH or PPS below:

Defining Quality in a CAH Swing Bed Program

During this session, we will explore the human/staff component to successful outcomes, look at measures defining skilled care, and explore measures impacting CAH swing beds.

Upon completion of this presentation, you should be able to:

• Describe the human/staff component to successful outcomes.
• Identify quality measures defining skilled care.
• Describe measures impacting CAH swing beds.
• Identify opportunities to use these measures to set up program monitors and outcomes.

 Defining Quality in a Rural Hospital Swing Bed Program (PPS)

In this session, we will discuss the human/staff component to successful outcomes, look at quality measures defining skilled care, and explore measures impacting rural hospital swing beds.

Upon completion of this presentation, you should be able to:

• Describe the human/staff component to successful outcomes.
• Identify quality measures defining skilled care.
• Identify measures impacting rural hospital swing beds.
• Describe opportunities to use these measures to set up program monitors and outcomes.