skilled or not??

[Carrie Henning]

We recently admitted a resident from a hospital based swing bed.  He was originally hospitalized for UTI sepsis with confusion and weakness.  He was discharged from therapies due to lack of progress, thus dc'd from swing bed. Is it appropriate to use the baseline 5 day observation period to skill him now that he is with us in LTC or would those 5 days have been utilized by the hospital swing bed?  Any assistance is greatly appreciated.   Carrie Henning, RN, MDS coordinator