Sentences with phrase «sole community hospital»

They must also be either one of the state's five public health systems or federally designated as a critical access or sole community hospital.

The bill, which passed unanimously in both chambers last June, would have narrowed the definition of a safety net to include: a public hospital, with the exception of SUNY; a federally designated critical access or sole community hospital; or a hospital that has at least 50 percent of its patients uninsured or on Medicaid, 40 percent of its inpatient population covered by Medicaid, not more than 25 percent of its discharges using commercial insurance, and at least 3 percent of its patients uninsured.

Hannon, whose Nassau County district Democrats believe is in play in November, helped push the union - backed bill through the Senate, amending the legislation to add federally designated sole community hospitals and critical access hospitals to the list of those that qualify for the enhanced payments.

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He was the medical director for a clinical molecular diagnostic laboratory, and for several of the past 10 years, the sole general clinical genetics provider for two large community hospital systems in Boise, Idaho, and Portland, Oregon.