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Medicare Skilled Nursing Services (Swing Beds) are extremely beneficial when a patient is "Not Quite Ready to Go Home" after a hospital stay.  At Family Health West, we provide Medicare Skilled Nursing in our Hospital setting.

Family Health West's Hospital setting offers the Distinct Advantage of providing in-house Social Services; Physical Rehabilitation Therapy Services to include Physical, Speech, and Occupational Therapies; as well as Laboratory and X-Ray Services, which allows for a very positive, patient-responsive rehabilitative climate. The goal of our Physical Rehabilitation Therapy Services is to provide care that assists patients to reverse or slow declines and improve or maintain at their highest possible level of functioning.  Our Hospital has the advantage of being a smaller facility offering Individualized, Convenient Care with a Personal Touch.

WHAT'S THE ADMISSION CRITERIA?   Patients are admitted to these beds under the same criteria that they would be admitted to Medicare Skilled Nursing Beds in a nursing home.

DO PATIENTS RECEIVE THE SAME QUALITY OF CARE? At Family Health West, staff to patient ratios are better, nursing staff is ACLS certified, and patients are in a Hospital Environment.

As a Medicare Skilled Nursing Bed (Swing Bed) patient, 24-hour acute care is no longer needed, patients may not see the doctor as often as they did while their condition was acute, and usually laboratory work or checking of vital signs isn't done as often.

While in the Medicare Skilled Nursing Bed (Swing Bed) program, patients will receive a range of Physical Rehabilitation Therapy Services such as Physical, Speech or Occupational Therapy.  These services will be designed to meet the specific needs of each patient.  Nursing Care services may also be needed.  This may include telemetry monitoring, dressing changes, a nutritional assessment or evaluating new medications, etc.  Our Medicare Skilled Nursing Services are offered using our Social Model Approach.

A key component of the program is the patient's active participation in resuming daily activities such as getting up, getting dressed, and participating in organized, fun social activities.

HOW LONG DOES A PATIENT STAY?  The length of stay depends on each patient's need and condition.  The average length of stay in a Medicare Skilled Nursing Bed (Swing Bed) is approximately 12 days.

We want to help our patients get well and return to their home setting!

After an illness, stroke, injury or surgery, a patient may be getting better but still needs some additional skilled care before returning to a home environment.  Before leaving the acute care bed setting, a Discharge Planner assists in initiating a Care Plan for Swing Bed Services.  In some cases, a patient may stay in the same hospital bed moving from one level of care to another. 

Family Health West's Medicare Skilled Nursing Service provides nursing care for patients who require medically supervised nursing care on a continuous basis but no longer require intense or acute levels of care.  Once patients gain the strength and independence to return to their home environment, they will receive home care instructions as well as any needed arrangements with community agencies.

WHO PAYS FOR IT?  Medicare Part A funds Medicare Skilled Nursing Services (Swing Bed).  As long as a patient meets Medicare criteria, has days left in the benefit period and the doctor approves the stay, the patient may receive Medicare Skilled Nursing Services until discharged.

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