Swing Bed Services at Hemphill County Hospital

HCH’s Swing Bed Program

HCH’s case manager works collaboratively with patients and their healthcare team to coordinate their care while a patient in our swing bed program. Our role is patient advocacy. Our goal is providing support to patients and their families to ensure they receive the highest quality of care throughout their stay—and helping make the transition from our hospital to home an easy one.

In order to qualify for swing bed, a patient must have stayed at least three consecutive midnights in an acute-care setting in the past 30 days, also referred to as the 3-Midnight Rule. Medicare Part A and many commercial insurance plans provide swing bed coverage.  Private pay is also an option.

HCH’s Swing Bed program provides 24-hour care for patients who need:

• Rehabilitation after a recent hospitalization or surgical procedure
• To regain strength and mobility following an illness
• Long-term IV therapy/infusions
• Physical therapy after orthopedic surgery, stroke, or injury
• Occupational therapy to develop, recover, or maintain vocational and daily living activities that promote independence
• Speech therapy to improve speech, language, and eating conditions affected by illness or injury
• Wound care
• Palliative care and more

After meeting therapy and rehabilitation goals, our swing bed patients can return home stronger and healthier than before.  As family and friends contribute greatly to a patient’s healing and recovery, our staff welcomes visits from loved ones during the patient’s stay. 

Hemphill County Hospital’s Swing Bed program is a valuable resource to area patients and families—if this service was unavailable locally, patients requiring daily nursing, rehabilitation, and therapy services would have to relocate to another community throughout the recovery process.