Discharge to Swing Bed or Skilled Nursing Facility: Who Goes Where?

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The NC Rural Health Research Program’s Findings Brief, Discharge to Swing Bed or Skilled Nursing Facility: Who Goes Where, examines health conditions of patients discharged from rural Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to swing beds and skilled nursing facilities (SNFs). Patients discharged to facility-based, post-acute care from CAHs are sent to SNFs and swing beds almost equally. Those discharged from rural PPS hospitals predominantly are sent to SNFs.

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