On April 1, 2025, Allevant, developed by Mayo Clinic and Select Medical, 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.
Read what past clients are saying HERE
Expected Outcomes
1) Improved Health Outcomes: Shortened post-acute length of stay, low rate of post-acute patients discharged back to acute care (readmission from post-acute setting), high level of post-acute patients discharged back to independent settings (home or assisted living), increased staff and community focus on wellness behaviors, increased patient wellness, improved long-term health
2) 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
3) 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
If you have interest in learning more about joining the April 1, 2025 Cohort to help
grow your swing bed volume, please fill out the brief information here.
About Allevant
Allevant, a joint venture between Mayo Clinic and Select Medical, helps Critical Access Hospitals thrive by developing post-acute Transitional Care programs using available Swing Beds. Focused on helping patients transition to their highest level of independence, Transitional Care is a program that involves the patient and family, makes available the full resources of the Critical Access Hospital and focuses on measured outcomes and evidence-based processes to ensure patients get the best care possible.
Allevant has supported more than 100 Critical Access Hospitals across 24 states including both independent and part of health systems. Our clients have cared for over 12,000 patients representing more than 158,000 swing bed days.
With a strong focus on quality, outcomes, and growth, our clients saw an average growth in swing bed days of 55% by the second year. 64% of patients were categorized as complex medical or complex surgical which is a growing patient population, and only 7% of Transitional Care patients were discharged directly back to acute care during a program stay of less than 30 days. 76% of patients were discharged from Transitional Care back to independence. The average patient rating was 4.83 out of 5 when asked if patients would “recommend the program to others”.
Learn more at www.Allevant.com.