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Weekend Doctor: What is a "swing bed"?

Posted by Staff on December 10, 2023 - 6:40am

By Emily Koogler, LSW, CCM
Social Worker-Case Manager, Bluffton Hospital

What is a swing bed?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) grants approval to critical access hospitals to provide post-acute care in the hospital setting if the facility meets certain requirements. The swing bed concept allows a critical access facility to use its beds interchangeably for either acute care or post-acute care. The patient swings from receiving acute-care services and reimbursement to receiving skilled services and reimbursement while staying in the hospital setting.

What kinds of patients are seen in a swing bed unit?
Swing bed candidates are those who desire rehab in a post-acute care setting and have a daily skilled nursing need such as IV antibiotics, wound care, etc. or a skilled therapy need for five or more days a week with the goal of returning home after a rehab stay. Candidates also include those who are stable and no longer in the diagnostic phase or testing part of treatment.

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Health Services
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When Bluffton's CVS was a clothing and shoe store

Posted by Staff on December 10, 2023 - 6:00am

By Fred Steiner
www.BlufftonForever.com

The Main Street Bluffton building housing today’s CVS Pharmacy served the community as a retail business for nearly 125 years. Originally the building housed two businesses, one on the north side and the other on the south.

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Historical Bluffton
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Rockets boys basketball doubles up on Arcadia

Posted by Staff on December 9, 2023 - 7:31am

By Matt M. Stutz

The Pandora-Gilboa Rockets boys basketball team played host to the Arcadia Redskins in a Blanchard Valley Conference match-up Friday night Dec. 8.  In the season’s home opener, the Rockets (3-0, 1-0 BVC, 0-0 PCL) overwhelmed the Redskins by a final of 63-28.

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Sports
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O-G staves off Pirate upset bid with 4th period run

Posted by Staff on December 9, 2023 - 7:18am

Note from BHS athletic director Alex Hanna: 

“Both O-G and Bluffton participated in the Eli Jones student section theme, where we remembered the Bluffton sophomore who tragically lost his life this week. 

“His passing has left a hole in the heart of the Bluffton community. Eli was a son, a brother, and a friend to so many.  

“For those who didn't know Eli, there is one word we can use to describe him and that is "good," he was a good friend, good teammate, good student, from a good family. We lost a good one this week. 

“Huge thank you to the Titan Boys Basketball team for donating over $300 to the Eli Jones Memorial Fund.”

By Cort Reynolds

BLUFFTON__The Bluffton boys basketball team led much of the game, but a fourth quarter flurry by visiting perennial power Ottawa-Glandorf led to a 45-40 Titan victory Friday night, December 8.

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Sports
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Local planning advances for April 8 total solar eclipse

Posted by Staff on December 9, 2023 - 6:00am

By Paula Scott

The December 8 Bluffton Area Chamber of Commerce member breakfast meeting was an opportunity to hear regional plans and expectations for the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse that will likely double the number of people in the region. Bluffton is within a “path of totality” across the country where the eclipse is best seen.

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Business
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Women's Christmas Tea featured a children's story and tea for 200

Posted by Staff on December 8, 2023 - 6:00am

The Women’s Ministry Committee of Ebenezer Mennonite Church hosted their annual Christmas Tea on December 1. The evening was filled with delicious treats, many rounds of holiday-inspired flavors of tea, and enjoyable laughter and conversation among the nearly two hundred women who attended the event.

The committee planned the tea over many months, and they decided that this year the theme of the event would be the gifts given in honor of Jesus’ birthday. 

As has become a tradition for the Christmas Tea, a holiday-themed children’s story was read as a focal point of the evening. This year, the story The Sparkle Box written by Jill Hardie was read by Lily Shadle to a children who came up on stage during the event. Lily said “I really enjoy reading to the kids, giving them the opportunity to get on stage, and allowing them to feel special, even if it's only for a few minutes.

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Worship
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