Rural hospitals meet challenges to continue serving critical needs.(Focus...

Mississippi Business Journal;  July 12, 2004 ;     700+ words ......the number of rural hospitals closing in Mississippi...sparsely populated rural areas have unique challenges...hospitals in rural areas back in 1947...big issue for rural hospitals is deciding what...accessible in these rural areas because they...patients ...

BALANCED BUDGET ACT AND RURAL HOSPITALS:CHUCK GRASSLEY

Congressional Testimony;  July 11, 2000 ;     700+ words ......condition of our rural hospitals. The name of this...America. Many rural areas are struggling...low-cost hospitals. Rural areas tend to have older populations, so rural hospitals rely on Medicare...never treated rural hospitals well, and the...service ...

Rural hospitals may get more funding with bill.

Watertown Daily Times (Watertown, NY);  September 23, 2006 ;     481 words ......Marc Heller Sep. 23--WASHINGTON -- Rural hospitals with a large share of patients...disproportionate share payments to rural hospitals that treat high percentages of...aimed at boosting health care in rural areas. Rep. John M. McHugh, R-Pierrepont...eligibility for the funds. But ...

STATE'S RURAL HOSPITALS NEED TO REMAIN OPEN

The Journal Record;  June 21, 1990 ;     445 words ......It's important to keep rural Oklahoma hospitals...Office report said rural hospitals across the United States...services. Coffey said nine rural hospitals in the state have closed...open up practices in rural areas because of different...doctors to settle in rural ...

Panel to urge increasing: ; Medicare in rural areas

Charleston Gazette;  June 12, 2001 ;     297 words ......Medicare should increase the help it gives rural hospitals and clinics to keep pace with more-populated...plan to advise Congress. The panel - focusing on rural hospitals - recommends increasing the lump-sum payments...for serving low- income patients, which has led rural advocates to call ...

Rural Hospitals: Organizational Alignments for Managed Care Contracting.

Journal of Healthcare Management;  March 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......menu of possibilities so that rural hospitals, given their own needs and objectives...likely to be most attractive to rural hospitals that have a strong patient base. Second, rural hospitals will be more likely to enter...arrangement. The environment in which rural ...

Bill in OK Legislature offers sales tax rebate on construction- related...

THE JOURNAL RECORD;  July 27, 2005 ;     511 words ...Rural hospitals in Oklahoma desiring...at least $100,000. Rural hospitals - they just have to...Association. Twenty-eight rural hospitals are the sole provider...care facilities in rural areas, said Walker. We're...stay or return to the rural areas. In many ...

Lawmakers Offer Treatment for Ills of Rural Hospitals

Yakima Herald-Republic;  March 13, 2001 ;     525 words ...OLYMPIA (AP) - Small rural hospitals have faced a grim budget...cure, for what ails rural hospitals. The House unanimously...reimbursements for eight small rural hospitals that need it the most...critically important rural hospitals are in trouble. "You...economic ...

AHA's bid to aid rural hospitals hit.(American Hospital...

Modern Healthcare;  June 18, 2001 ;     297 words ......compensation in low-wage rural areas suffered another blow last...billion in Medicare revenue to rural hospitals over the next decade, some...endorse some new money for rural hospitals, such as a special payment...year and an increase in rural hospitals' Medicare ...

Winds of change bring foul breeze for rural hospitals

The Journal Record;  September 23, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Troubled rural hospital executives...the nation's 2,144 rural hospitals, which the director...About 25 percent of rural hospitals have negative options...State has about 65 rural hospitals, about half losing...average, Oklahoma's rural hospitals account for 10 ...

America's Rural Hospitals in Critical Condition; Economic Pressures Force...

The Washington Post;  March 18, 1989 ;     700+ words ......suffered the fate of other rural hospitals and shut down, as seemed...routine. Since 1980, 206 rural hospitals-43 of them last year...economics: 90 percent of rural hospitals with fewer than 25 beds...failing economies of many rural areas; the large proportion...care. ...

Medicare cuts big blow to state's rural hospitals

The Journal Record;  December 13, 1999 ;     561 words ......devastating effect on rural hospitals in Oklahoma, according...effect Oklahoma's rural hospitals more than other states...Medicaid recipients. In rural areas, Robertson said...poor, he added. "In rural hospitals, we have a situation...maintenance organization in ...

2003 Medicare Act includes provisions to ensure funding for rural...

Native American Report;  January 23, 2004 ;     163 words ...More than 1,000 small rural hospitals could benefit under an interim rule that would allow...extension, and also makes sole community hospitals in rural areas eligible for the special payments. These changes will help to strengthen and preserve access to care in rural areas by providing ...

Health care: Providing critical access to rural hospitals

Business NH Magazine;  June 1, 2005 ;     458 words ......hospitals. However, a federal program is helping rural hospitals to recoup more of their costs. By the end of the year, NE's 13 rural hospitals are expected to achieve the Critical Access...to support limited-service hospitals in rural areas. It was created to preserve vital ...

Medicaid and Medicare cuts may close many rural hospitals.(Originated from...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  December 20, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Montgomery, W.Va., and in rural hospitals across America are bracing...to automation and as rural hospitals replaced coal tipples...sparked a small boom in rural areas as community colleges...contribute to that growth: Rural hospitals received higher rates...experts ...