Increase Revenue and Margins at Your Critical Access Hospital.
Swing Bed: By the Numbers for Critical Access Hospitals
- Utilizing swing beds reduces the Medicare costs per patient bed day AND increases revenues and margins to support population health, wellness, and other services. This can offset the shrinking inpatient census which shows the average daily census in CAHs across the country is under four.
- A successful swing bed initiative means developing a regional program based on diagnosis-specific admissions and not being dependent on a couple of referral hospitals for patients.
- Financial considerations consider staffing issues and understanding the value of skilled nursing staffing ratios vs. acute.
- Financial gains are more likely when program expectations focus on the serving needs of chronic diseases treated in tertiary hospitals.
Super Charge Your Swing Bed Program with HTHU!
The Rural Swing Bed Management Program from HTHU delivers webinars,
technical assistance check-ins, and in-
person interactive workshops to discuss building and maintaining a swing bed program with measurable financial expectations and quality outcomes. The program is designed to provide interaction with other swing bed program best practices, while also providing individual hospital assistance.
Led by industry experts, Kerry Dunning and Lisa Pando, alongside Hometown Health’s educational support team, the Rural Swing Bed Management Program includes the following components:
- Basic Training On-Demand: Get new swing bed coordinators and other key staff ready to go.
- HTHU Swing Bed Management Catalog : Gain understanding of swing bed foundations and learn proven best practices for program implementation.
- Track and Measure: Learn how to develop a Dashboard for Swing Bed Financial and Operational Measurement to effectively use data daily and track results.
- Annual Swing Bed Update: Maintain readiness with compliance and regulatory changes through live/virtual workshop.
- Webinars & Training Sessions: Attend quarterly training webinars live to hear about hot topics, quality measures and swing bed best practices. Ask the experts and get answers to program challenges!
- Hospital Specific Technical Assistance: Get resources to address hospital-specific issues utilizing one-on-one technical assistance.
Free for Qualified Hospitals
Paid Access to Training
If your hospital isn’t qualified under SHIP, you can purchase access to the program. A one-time fee of $15,000 allows anyone from your hospital to participate in the course; you will have access to the course for a full year. To learn more or sign up, fill out the form below and a team member will be in touch.