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Weekend Doctor: What is a "swing bed"?

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.

Leadership class participants show businesses how to get Hardin County Connected

By Paula Scott

At the November meeting of the Ada Area Chamber of Commerce, two participants in the current Hardin County Leadership Project introduced members to an opportunity to put area businesses and organizations on a virtual map for the entire county.

PHOTO Are you ready for some basketball?

The Ada Bulldogs Sports Photos page on Facebook has a treasure trove of action shots, including this freeze frame of the Bulldog win vs. Hardin Northern on December 5. For more Mark Andreasen photos, click HERE.

Noteworthy Community Choir to perform on December 10

Noteworthy Community Choir has announced a December 10 performance at 3:00 p.m. of the concert Rise Up, and Follow!

The event will take place at Riley Creek Baptist Church, 4950 Orange Township Rd 27, Bluffton.

Enjoy a mix of sacred and secular Christmas music presented by members of the NCC and join  a sing-a-long of some familiar Christmas hymns.

Hardin SWCD taking tree orders for April delivery

The Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will be taking orders for tree seedlings and bare root transplants through February 23, 2024, while supplies last. 

The seedlings for sale are: River Birch, Sugar Maple, Northern Red Oak, Swamp White Oak, Arborvitae, Colorado Blue Spruce, Norway Spruce and Eastern White Pine.  Each species is sold in bundles of 10. 

ONU introduces "Lost Brothers" program

If you lose touch with your college fraternity brothers after graduation, do you: a) do nothing; b) try to reconnect with them via social media or a phone call after life slows down, or c) surprise them by showing up at their house unannounced 35 years later?

If “c” sounds like the craziest choice, meet three late ’80s Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers from Ohio Northern University.

By all accounts, Dan Meek, BSME ’88, Brian Newberg, BA ’89, and Brian Keckler, BSEE ’89, are decent individuals and reputable professionals—a venture capitalist, an attorney, and a quality manager, respectively.

When the three get together? Surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly), the ONU fraternity brothers transform into jokesters and co-conspirators, reminiscent of their college-aged selves.

During one such gathering of the minds, on a golf course during a global pandemic, the three concocted their most harebrained scheme to date: “The Lost Brothers Project.”

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