CMS Swing Bed Requirements for Critical Access Hospitals
Date: 6/30/26
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Central time
Audience:
Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Officer, Compliance Officer, Emergency Department Personnel, Joint Commission Coordinator, Medical Records, Quality Improvement personnel, Risk Manager, Legal Counsel.
Overview:
Swing Beds can be a financial lifeline for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). This webinar will focus on swing bed regulations in Appendix W for CAHs. Common deficiencies involving swing beds and how to avoid them will be covered in this session. While it can be challenging to determine the interpretive guidelines and survey procedures without
a crosswalk between Appendix W and Appendix PP, this webinar will assist hospitals in understanding what actions need to be taken.
Learning Objectives:
– Discuss the requirements to admit a patient to swing bed status.
– Recall how to locate the regulation and interpretive guidelines and survey procedures for swing beds.
– Describe what CMS requires to be in the resident assessment, which is done to develop the care plan.
– Recall the CMS requirements for emergency dental care for swing bed patients.
Speaker:
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. As a registered nurse and attorney, Dixon holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Regis University, RECEP of Denver, a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Drake University College of Law, Des Moines, Iowa, and a Registered Nurse Diploma from Saint Luke’s School Professional Nursing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.
This speaker has no real or perceived conflicts of interest that relate to this presentation.
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