Rural issues
The AHA Friday applauded the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s proposal to shorten the Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems patient experience survey and agreed that the changes would reduce patient and provider burden.
Essentia Health, an integrated health care delivery system based in Duluth, Minn., provides telehealth services to patients at 26 of its roughly 80 rural health clinics, small rural hospitals and long-term care facilities in Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Its goal is to provide…
Rep. Don Young (R-AK) yesterday introduced the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Extension Act of 2015 (H.R. 672), which extends for five years the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program (RCH).
Urge your legislators to cosponsor S. 332/H.R.663
Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Jon Tester (D-MT) today introduced a Senate companion to the Critical Access Hospital Relief Act (S. 258/H.R. 169), AHA-supported legislation that would remove the 96-hour physician certification requirement as a condition of payment for critical access hospitals.
Sens. Jerry Moran (R-KS), Jon Tester (D-MT) and John Thune (R-SD) today introduced the Protecting Access to Rural Therapy Services (PARTS) Act (S.257) which would protect access to outpatient therapeutic services,
Companion to H.R. 169