Noon Lions host Rice Medical associates

EAGLE LAKE – On Thursday, Oct. 18, the Eagle Lake Noon Lions Club welcomed three guests from the Rice Medical Center Skilled Nursing Swing Bed Program.

Case Manager Alethea Chapman was the spokesperson, explaining the benefits of having this excellent Hospital-based program here in the community.

Rice Medical Center is a rural critical access hospital located in Eagle Lake, designated as a Level IV Trauma Center. The Swing Bed Program provides short-term rehabilitation to patients who have been discharged from the hospital, but need more time to recover from an illness, surgical procedure or injury.

The label ‘Swing Bed’ does not describe a bed that swings. It is an insurance term that ‘swings’ a patient’s care out of the acute care level into the rehabilitation level of the patient’s Insurance plan.

At Rice Medical Center, a Swing Bed patient can receive in-house therapy, including physical, occupational, speech, respiratory, as well as wound care, Imaging and Lab services and consultations with out-patient nursing and physician staff professionals of the Rice Medical Center who are highly trained to care for the patient’s needs.