September 19, 2023
Allevant Solutions Launches Project Swing Bed on the MENDS®: A Decade of Expertise Fuels New CAH Shared Learning Collaborative
On October 1, 2023, Allevant is launching a cohort of “Project Swing Bed on the MENDS®, a Critical Access Hospital (CAH) Shared Learning Collaborative. Participating CAHs will have access to Allevant staff, tools and resources to maximize their Swing Bed program and begin to implement MENDS®, a wellness program for healthcare staff and post-acute patients.
Expected Outcomes
- Improved Health Outcomes
- Shortened post-acute length of stay
- Low rate of post-acute patients discharged back to acute care
- High level of post-acute patients discharged back to independent settings
- Increased staff and community focus on wellness behaviors
- Increased patient wellness
- Improved long-term health
- Expanded Capacity for Essential Health Care Services
- Increased utilization of CAH swing beds
- Increase in confidence and capabilities of rural health workforce to provide post-acute care services locally
- New focus on wellness strategies for rural staff and post-acute patients
- New processes to facilitate rural primary care practices to support continuation of patient-identified wellness strategies for newly discharged rural post-acute patients
- Increased Financial Sustainability
- CAH-increased census and revenue
- Long term reduction in costs associated with increased staff wellness
- Lower Medicare costs per patient day
What you will Receive
- Multi Professional Training and Education
- Learning modules
- Available resource documents
- Project management and collaboration with peers
- Licensing and use of the brand
- Clinical and workflow process reengineering
- Referral education development and support
- Quality database management utilizing core key indicators
- Continued program development and support