The Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Rural Health and Primary Care (ORHPC) is seeking proposals from eligible vendors through the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program to improve rural transitional care programs by addressing swing bed quality and market utilization.
Donor Name: Minnesota Department of Health
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/04/2022
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The purpose of this solicitation is to identify a vendor to provide education, technical assistance, and targeted market analysis to critical access hospitals with licensed swing bed programs with the goal to improve the quality of patient care and optimize swing bed market utilization for improved financial performance. The education and related technical assistance will be made available to any interested staff in all participating hospitals with swing bed programs. Swing bed quality improvement should be targeted at clinical staff working with patients receiving care in a swing bed set. Financial analysis and the related technical assistance and recommendations will be available to staff in financial or administrative roles in participating hospitals.
Sample Tasks and Deliverables
- Document the penetration of swing bed programs and transitional care in Minnesota.
- Provide analysis and benchmarking opportunities to show how individual swing bed programs compare to state or national benchmarks.
- Provide expert technical assistance to participating hospitals, identify knowledge gaps and make evidence-based recommendations about appropriate education or resources necessary to fill gaps and demonstrate improvement.
- Provide educational opportunities designed to improve the core competencies of clinical staff providing care to patients in swing beds and staff responsible for hospital operations. Education should be accessible by any staff on an as-needed basis and in a format that allows for self-paced learning. Education should be available to all interested staff within participating facilities and not limited to a staff in any specific role. Topics available for education should be identified using hospital swing bed data and recommended in tandem with the technical assistance plan. Respondents should propose their own solutions and tasks to be performed as part of hospital staff education, topics may include but are not limited to:
- Clinical scenarios and appropriate treatment of patients commonly seen in swing bed settings,
- Communication and coordination across systems, ensuring appropriate transfer of patients between acute and transitional care settings,
- Increasing compliance with policies, procedures and the Conditions of Participation for swing bed programs,
- Reduction of 30-day readmission rates and increasing patients that return to their previous residence after swing bed discharge,
- improving patient satisfaction with swing bed care,
- Improving the quality of care in a swing bed/transitional care program,
- Improving staff resiliency and organizational culture within the transitional care setting,
- Strategic marketing and ways to increase swing bed utilization and understanding of individual hospital market share.
- Provide swing bed market analysis for participating facilities designed to demonstrate the potential maximum market value of their hospital swing bed program. Following the analysis, provide expert technical assistance and evidence-based strategies for improvement based on the findings of the market analysis.
The term of this contract is anticipated to be from March 1, 2022 to August 31, 2022 with the option to extend up to an additional 2 years in increments determined by the State.
For more information, visit Rural Hospital Flexibility Program.
