Swing Beds - CMS Hospital Requirements
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Overview:
Swing Beds can be a financial lifeline for Critical Access Hospitals, but also for smaller Acute hospitals. CMS recently update the Acute manual to include regulations for those smaller, acute hospitals. The regulations are in the respective manuals – Appendix W for Critical Access hospitals and Appendix A for Acute hospitals – but the interpretive guidelines and survey procedures are in another manual – Appendix PP for Long Term Care. There is no crosswalk, so this webinar was created to assist hospitals in deciphering the mystery.
Audience: Hospital
Laura A. Dixon served as the director of risk management and patient safety for the Colorado Region of Kaiser Permanente. Prior to joining Kaiser, she served as the director, facility patient safety and risk management and operations for COPIC from 2014 to 2020. In her role, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation and training to facilities, practitioners, and staff in multiple states.
Dixon has more than 20 years of clinical experience in acute care facilities, including critical care, coronary care, peri-operative services, and pain management. Prior to joining COPIC, she served as the director, Western region, patient safety and risk management for The Doctors Company in Napa, California. In this capacity, she provided patient safety and risk management consultation to the physicians and staff for the western United States.