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Rural Emergency Hospitals Increase Access to Care in Rural Communities

Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations

According to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, since 2010 there have been 148 rural hospital closures leaving many rural communities without access to lifesaving care. CMS (2022) created rural emergency hospitals (REH) as a separate provider designation effective January 1, 2023. Rural Emergency Hospitals.

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Cleveland Clinic’s Virtual Emergency Medicine Program: Treating the Right Patients in the Right Place

Consult QD

Bruce Graham, DO, who leads Cleveland Clinic’s Virtual Emergency Medicine Program, interacts with a patient. Traditionally, Medicare regulations only allowed payment for emergency ambulance services when patients were transported to hospitals and other acute care facilities. “It

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Understanding and honoring the needs of Native American elders

American Nurse

Some patients avoided emergency care out of fear that they would be stranded for hours away from the reservation or be unable to pay their medical bills from a different facility. Without other end-of-life options or home healthcare resources on the reservation, many patients must turn to hospital care. August 26, 2021.