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ONGOING COLLABORATION BRINGING BIG BENEFITS TO PATIENTS AND HOSPITALS » A magazine for and about Oregon Community Hospitals. OAHHS partnership with Allevant has already shown some promising results 14 hospital hadn’t had a swing bed patient in more than a year. What’s more, the hospital had open beds in its Medical Services Inpatient Unit and had the capacity to accept more patients —but it wasn’t. “I began to ask, ‘How can we utilize our capacity to alleviate census challenges at Salem Salem Health West Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Dallas, Oregon, that is part of SalemHealth, has had a swing bed program for quite some time. CreatedbyMedicare, the programaims to increase patient access to post-acute, skilled nursing facility-level care in rural hospitals. Yet when nurse manager Shane Emmert arrived in 2016, the By Jon Bell

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