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Expanding access to emergency care in rural hospitals


Problems and Solutions for Rural Hospitals

... access to emergency services if they have an accident or medical emergency. The Crisis Facing Rural Healthcare. Small rural hospitals are struggling to ...

Governor Abbott Announces $4.5 Million For Rural Emergency ...

The Texas Rural Emergency Hospitals Financial Stabilization Grant will provide qualifying hospitals up to $1.1 million each through a two-year grant.

Extending healthcare access and improving healthcare for rural ...

Here's an overview of the legislation introduced: The Preserving Telehealth, Hospital, and Ambulance Access Act expands Medicare telehealth for ...

Expanding Telemedicine in Rural Hospitals - Access TeleCare

For some small-town hospitals, access to specialists has become a new standard where the community has realized the value of a telemedicine investment.

Improving delivery of care in rural emergency departments: a ...

The objective of this pilot study was to test the feasibility and relevance of the selected approach and to explore challenges and solutions to improve ...

Rural hospitals contend with challenging opportunities - OR Manager

Rural hospitals in the US have been facing a prolonged, multifaceted crisis. The literature presents several reasons for why healthcare ...

How States Can Expand Health Care Access in Rural Communities

States have several tools available to help relieve rural care shortages and increase health care provider supply during the pandemic and beyond.

Rural ERs Expand Access to Care Using APP Teams - Cross Country

Read our white paper on how physician-led APP teams can be a solution for rural emergency departments and find resources for COVID relief funding that may ...

Expanded use of tele-emergency services can help strengthen rural ...

A new study from the University of Iowa finds rural hospitals that use tele-medicine to back up their emergency room health care providers ...

An Emergency Medicine–Primary Care Partnership to Improve Rural ...

Rural populations are now a health disparity population, facing higher mortality rates for the 5 leading causes of death compared with their urban counterparts.

Models for preserving access to emergency care in rural areas

Sole-Community Hospital (SCH), an add- on to inpatient rates (300+ hospitals). ▫ Medicare-Dependent Hospital (MDH), an.

Rural Emergency Hospitals: CMS' New Provider Type Crucial for ...

REH status gives rural hospitals an option to continue treating patients without having to staff and maintain inpatient services.

Health Policy in Crisis: Saving Rural Hospitals Across America

The closures highlight financial challenges that rural hospitals face amid workforce shortages, rising costs, and leveling reimbursement.

Rural Hospitals - FAH

The Federation of American Hospitals (FAH) membership includes many rural hospitals across the nation. Rural hospitals serve more than 60 million Americans ...

If You Build It | Harvard Medicine Magazine

Rural Health Issue. by Elizabeth Dougherty; 11 minute read. highway sign with "closed" sticker over hospital icon. The term “rural” conjures a range of ...

USDA Rural Development - ArcGIS StoryMaps

USDA has awarded $129 million in Emergency Rural Health Care Grants to improve health care facilities in rural towns across the nation.

How to Improve Access to Health Care: Issues & Potential Solutions

Why do so many people forgo much-needed medical care? Explore the barriers to health care in the U.S. and how to improve access to health ...

Rethinking Rural Health - AAMC Research and Action Institute

Have a similar number of visits to primary care physicians (3.1 vs. 3.7 average claims for Medicare beneficiaries). Have similar numbers of ...

Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) - Rural Health Information Hub

Critical Access Hospital is a designation given to eligible rural hospitals by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Rural Health Care Program | Federal Communications Commission

NEW REQUIREMENT FOR REVIEW OF USAC DECISIONS: Any party (including, but not limited to entities filing an FCC Form 499, federal universal service program ...