CAH and PPS swing bed programs must understand the reason behind the initiation of swing beds and the reliance on understanding skilled nursing regulations to operate and financially manage the program. This Certificate Program will help develop participants' understanding of swing bed foundations and provide proven best practice solutions for program implementation and success.

Courses included in this Certificate Program:

• An Introduction to the Swing Bed Certification - 2 minutes
• Swing Bed Foundations: Laying the Groundwork - 75 minutes
• Swing Bed Foundations: Setting the Standards - 75 minutes
• Swing Bed Foundations: Expanding the Footprint - 60 minutes
• Swing Bed Foundations: Medicine Best Practices - 40 minutes
• Swing Bed Foundations: Therapy - 60 minutes
• Swing Bed Foundations: What is IDT? - 50 minutes

Upon completion of this Certificate Program, you should be able to:

• Describe the history of and reason for swing beds.
• Recall swing bed basic operations and program management.
• Identify considerations for building, rebuilding, starting or restarting a swing bed program.
• Describe regulatory basics and current audits.
• Outline the management changes for future regulatory and industry changes.
• Describe how to establish operational standards for success.
• Review your current program “SWOTs."
• Define readiness for care management and person-centered programming.
• Describe how to expand the “footprint” of the program to include all referral sources.
• Describe best practice ideas that can be altered to fit your swing bed program.
• Recall areas of medication concerns demonstrated by survey issues.
• Identify the need for program oversight for a cost effective and clinically appropriate use of medications.
• Describe CMS directives for therapy services.
• Identify the skilled therapy regulations.
• Review therapy documentation examples.
• Recognize CMS requirements for necessary documentation.
• Determine the team members participating in IDT.
• Review IDT requirements.
• Explore the value of efficient IDT meetings.
• Identify new strategies for IDT use.