Sentences with phrase «many rural hospitals»

There has been a total of 83 rural hospital closures in the United States from January 2010 to January 2018, according to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, a group which tracks rural hospital closures across the country.

The reasons for rural hospital closures vary for every community but can include decreased demand for inpatient services, consolidation in the health - care space, and a state's decision of whether to expand Medicaid, Mark Holmes, director of NC RHRP, told CNBC.

Cut to a rural hospital.

Its mission is to help the small rural Hospital provide the best possible medical care to residents as well as the many visitors to the Mendocino Coast.

Some have been with Winesong for years, while others are new to the family, but all contribute to helping to raise essential funds for our rural Hospital.

I was fortunate to have an amazing natural birth experience with my first - born, despite being stuck in a tiny fairly rural hospital in Mississippi.

After that training I moved to Canada, and to a rural hospital that is 50 miles from the nearest OR and anesthetist.

I gave birth in a large older hospital - with my 1st - and a rural hospital (only 6 rooms and most doubled as birthing rooms) The nurse's station was a across the hall.

HE had to call an ambulance and she was transferred to a rural hospital (we live in DC, but the birthing center was out in the middle of nowhere, maryland) where she had an emergency c - section.

We had a great family centered cs in a tiny rural hospital.

Also at 1 p.m., Schumer, joined by patients, doctors, and administrators at Nathan Littauer Hospital calls for the immediate renewal of two Medicare payment programs critical to the health of rural hospitals across the Capital Region, Nathan Littauer Hospital, 99 E. State St., Gloversville.

Schumer said rural hospitals, in particular, would be devastated.

Extra health funding for rural hospitals?

Let's remember also Medicaid supports rural hospitals, drug addiction recovery, support for special needs adults and children as well as elder care in nursing homes when all other funds run dry.

«In many counties, take Lewis County, one of our biggest employers is our rural hospitals.»

«It could put out of business our rural hospitals,» he said.

«We need stability going into the end of session so we can accomplish goals that are important to my people such as saving rural hospitals, fostering job growth and giving our taxpayers relief.»

As Congress considers waiting until January to fund expired Medicare programs, the continued uncertainty already roils rural hospitals.

Under Cuomo's plan, $ 700 million would go toward a new hospital in Brooklyn (or the financing of a new hospital), $ 400 million would go to rural hospitals in upstate New York, and $ 300 million would go to health providers specifically in Oneida County.

$ 300 million would have gone to health providers in Oneida County, and $ 400 million would have been set aside for struggling rural hospitals in upstate New York.

The proposal carves out $ 25.5 million of the funding for two separate programs, but allocates $ 374.5 million for upstate rural hospitals» capital costs.

The Assembly's one - house budget carved out some of the capital funding reserved for upstate rural hospitals to go toward Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

He cited the passage of the Women's Health and Wellness Act in his first year in the Senate, keeping rural hospitals open, and the law permitting game on non-Indian land among his proudest accomplishments.

She worked to secure funding for rural hospitals in the 19th district, and went on to serve under the Obama administration as an Agricultural Economist in over a dozen countries in Africa and Central America on a USAID project.

Schumer, speaking Wednesday on a conference call with reporters, said the Republican plan, which rolls back Medicaid expansion and relies on federal subsidies that are based on age instead of income, would devastate New York, particularly rural hospitals upstate that rely on Medicaid.

The Democrat is expected to address cuts to federal programs that benefit rural hospitals.

What I do know is the bill is important for creating a mechanism to deliver needed aid to truly needy hospitals [such as] New York City Health + Hospitals, other public hospitals, hospitals with high volumes of Medicaid and uninsured patients, and many rural hospitals.»

Jones cited education funding, broadband, funding for rural hospitals and ethics reform as his top priorities.

Schumer said the recently passed budget deal includes the extension of the Low - Volume Hospital (LVH) and Medicare - Dependent Hospital (MDH) Programs, both of which are essential to the health of rural hospitals across Upstate New York.

One of them is Claxton - Hepburn Medical Center, a rural hospital with a 10 - bed intensive care unit in Ogdensburg, N.Y..

Patients in small towns can save thousands of dollars in health care costs if their local rural hospital is part of a tele - emergency room network, according to a new study from the University of Iowa.

The study looked at more than 9,000 tele - ER encounters over the course of 52 months at 85 small, rural hospitals in seven states that are part of a network operated by Avera eCare, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Also, having a telehealth system increases the reputation of the rural hospital in its community.»

Underequipped rural hospitals have facilitated Ebola virus outbreaks in Africa.

«Patients in rural hospitals can save thousands of dollars if local hospital is part of tele - emergency room network.»

Tele - ER services are used by small, rural hospitals with limited emergency medicine resources to connect with hub hospitals staffed by full - time ER physicians and registered nurses.

Winfield, located in the northwestern part of the state, does have its own hospital — but, like many rural hospitals, it no longer offers obstetrical services, Avery says, so women in labor must travel about 60 miles to Tuscaloosa.

Eighty rural hospitals have been shuttered nationwide since 2010, and about a third of the country's remaining rural facilities are vulnerable to closure as they continue to operate under tight margins, according to findings from the latest annual Rural Relevance Study.

Charges were higher at California hospitals located in areas with higher costs of living, in rural hospitals, and in hospitals with higher proportions of Medicare patients.

Or here in the United States, telemedicine could offer rural hospitals far from any trauma center the same expertise.

For example, comparing outcomes of bypass surgery in a cardiac unit at an urban facility performing thousands of the procedures per year to those of an under - staffed rural hospital that rarely does the operation would be comparing apples to oranges, Dr. Moss said.

Aaron Poole, Ellen Wong, Kathleen Munroe, Stephanie Belding, and Kenneth Welsh star in The Void, about a series of transformations at a rural hospital.

Rural Hospitals are having trouble providing health care to their patients, and officials say the Florida Legislature's budget plan isn't likely to help.

She also undertook emergency care work at the local rural hospital as a visiting medical officer, in addition to her role as an employee, associate and then partner in a local medical practice.

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Materials and Methods: It is a clinical intervention for depressed patients from 15 rural hospitals.

Even if that involves being filmed by an entire film crew for a couple of days to demonstrate what life is like for doctors working in rural hospitals.

Not exact matches

«They save lives in local hospitals and own businesses in communities urban and rural throughout this country.»

But Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alaska, and other Medicaid expansion states have all seen massive drops in their uninsurance rates after adopting it, providing a boon in rural regions where many hospitals regularly see patients who can't afford their care.