- Prescription for Crisis: Rural Pharmacies Struggle to Stay Open
- As an Oklahoma Hospital Breaks Ground, USDA Looks to Better Health, High Speed Internet and Housing
- As an Oklahoma Hospital Breaks Ground, USDA Looks to Better Health, High Speed Internet and Housing
- In a Rural Small Town, a Group of Locals Steps up to Support Senior Health
- MAHEC Launches Tiny Home Project to Boost Healthcare Training in Rural WNC
- The Cost of Senior Care: Why Aging Farmers Fear the Nursing Home
- Demand for Bilingual Spanish Health Care Services Is Growing — Can Utah Keep Up?
- Dark Highways, Fast Cars, Few Sidewalks — And More Pedestrian Deaths
- Rural Hospitals Especially Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks
- Student-Run Market Made From Straw Bales Still Serving Cody Amid Grocery Store Crisis in Rural Nebraska
- Experimental Sensors Aim to Detect Early Signs of Heatstroke and Warn Farmworkers
- FCC to Reignite 5G Fund to Target Investments in Rural Communities Using Improved Broadband Maps
- Rural Hospitals May Be More Vulnerable to Ransomware Attacks
- Prengaman's Research Backs Nurse Practitioner Solutions for the Rural Provider Shortage
- Data Shows Rural Disparities in Traffic Deaths
New Information Releseaed for Critical Access Hospitals.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently published a new fact sheet summarizing the Medicare rules and regulations for Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs). This latest version includes the revised CAH location requirement relative to other facilities to include areas with only secondary roads available and the requirement to inform the patient or the representative of their rights before starting or ending care and establish a grievance process.
Here You Can Read the Updated Certification Criteria for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics
This month, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released the updated certification criteria for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs), a model designed to ensure access to coordinated comprehensive behavioral health care. This new document follows from a draft version of SAMHSA released in December. SAMHSA also posted a summary of changes between the new criteria and the previous version and deadlines for implementation of the updated criteria. Currently, there are over 500 CCBHCs operating across the country, including some CCBHCs in rural areas.