KHA will host a one-hour long webinar on CMS Swing Bed Requirements on Wednesday, January 15 from 10:00 – 11:00 AM EST. This webinar is free to KHA members and requires a registration process.

• Contact criley@kyha.com if you are interested in attending

Swing Beds can be a financial lifeline for Critical Access Hospitals. This webinar will focus on swing bed regulations in Appendix W for Critical Access Hospitals. Interpretive guidelines and survey procedures are under Appendix PP – Long Term Care manual, which will be discussed in the corresponding regulation sections.

It is challenging to figure out what the interpretive guidelines and survey procedures are as there is no crosswalk between Appendix W – for CAH – and Appendix PP – Long Term Care. This webinar was created to assist hospitals in understanding what needs to be done.

Also to be discussed will be common deficiencies involving swing beds and how to avoid them.

Objectives- At the conclusion of this offering, attendees will be able to:

• Discuss the requirements for a patient to be admitted to Swing Bed status
• Recall how to locate the regulation and interpretive guidelines and survey procedures for swing beds
• Describe what is required by CMS to be in the resident assessment which is done to do the care plan
• Recall the CMS requirements for emergency dental care for swing bed patients

Speaker
Laura A. Dixon, BS, JD, RN, CPHRM

Target Audience: CEO, COO, CFO, nurse executives, accreditation and compliance/regulation directors, nurse managers, pharmacists, quality managers, risk managers, health information management personnel, social workers, nurses, dieticians, nurse educators, nursing supervisors, patient safety officers, Director of Rehab, infection preventionists, and anyone who is responsible for care of swing bed patients in CAH

Continuing Education
The Kentucky Hospital Association is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Kentucky Board of Nursing (KBN). KBN approval of a continuing nursing education provider does not constitute endorsement of program content. This educational activity is offered for 1.2 contact hours, with offering number 5-0023-12-25-031, expiration date 12-31-25. No partial credit will be given. To receive credit, participants must attend the entire educational offering, provide their nursing license number, and complete the offering evaluation. After the conclusion of this webinar, a Survey Monkey evaluation link will be sent to attendees. Attendees will have a deadline of January 22 to complete the survey in order to receive the CEU certificate. Failure to complete any step in the process outlined above will result in non-issuance of CEU credit in accordance with KBN guidelines.

• Click here to to read an overview of the webinar