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37.40.401 swing-bed hospitals, definitions (1) A swing-bed hospital is a licensed hospital, critical access hospital (CAH) with swing-bed approval or licensed medical assistance facility which is medicare-certified to provide posthospital SNF care as defined in 42 CFR 409.20.
The swing-bed idea arose from a twin set of problems facing rural health care systems: (1) hospitals were built on a scale that often resulted in their having more beds than patients to fill them, and (2) frail elderly people who were disabled often needed to go to nursing homes far from where they lived.