Plumas District Hospital to launch Mayo Clinic transitional care program

Quincy, Calif.-based Plumas District Hospital will implement Allevant, a Mayo Clinic-affiliated transitional rehabilitation program, to increase revenue and care options, Plumas County News reports.

Under the program, Plumas District Hospital patients recovering from conditions like sepsis and hip surgeries will transition to rehabilitation care at the hospital, with length of stay lasting 10 days to two weeks, the report states.

The stays are typically "reimbursed reasonably well by Medicare" and could help the critical access hospital shore up its finances, Plumas District Hospital CEO Jeff Kepple, MD, told Plumas County News. The program will add to a swing bed program the hospital launched last year, which has boosted the facility's finances.

Dr. Kepple added the move reflects "the growing dilemma of overflowing tertiary care hospitals struggling to move patients out fast enough to allow admittance of more acutely ill patients. In contrast, critical access hospitals have empty beds with an average daily census of 4.5 patients nationwide."

Mayo Clinic first launched its Allevant program in Minnesota facilities close to the clinic and eventually expanded into Wisconsin. Plumas District Hospital is the first California hospital to initiate the program. The hospital will call the program Plumas Transitional Care, the report states.

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