Rural issues
Thank you for your continued heroic work to care for your communities as our nation battles the COVID-19 pandemic. As you likely know, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has requested that all hospitals report certain data on bed capacity, utilization, personal protective equipment (鈥
On June 4, Lincoln County Public Health (LCPH) recorded an outbreak of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Newport, Oregon, located about 85 miles southwest of Salem, Oregon. Five of these cases were connected to Pacific Seafood and they immediately began working with LCPH to get their employees tested.
This document includes AHA鈥檚 analysis of a new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services demonstration model, the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation (CHART) Model.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the Community Health Access and Rural Transformation Model, a new payment model for rural communities in response to an Aug. 3 executive order calling for a new model 鈥渢o ensure that rural healthcare providers are able to provide the鈥
The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded 89 organizations, including hospitals, $1 million each to combat opioid and other substance use disorders in high-risk rural communities. The recipients will work with the communities to implement and tailor evidence-based or promising鈥
Rural hospitals, already facing enormous challenges, quickly adapted when COVID-19 reached their communities.
Rural hospitals, already facing enormous challenges, quickly adapted when COVID-19 reached their communities. In this blog, John Supplitt, senior director of AHA Rural Health Services, points to the many examples of rural teams using innovative measures to improve quality of patient care during the鈥
President Trump Aug. 3 signed an executive order on 鈥渋mproving rural health and telehealth access,鈥 with directives to: launch a new payment model for rural health care; develop and implement a strategy to improve rural health care infrastructure.
The White House Aug. 3 issued an executive order on 鈥渋mproving rural health and telehealth access.鈥 The order includes directives to: launch a new payment model for rural health care; develop and implement a strategy to improve rural health care infrastructure; create a report describing policy鈥