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Rural Hospital Flexibility Program Tracking Project
Appendix C
Site
Visits
In Year 02, four Centers in the Tracking Team visited two states each. In each state, team members visited first with state government and related agencies (see protocols in Appendix D), and then traveled to two CAHs in each state to speak with hospital staff and community representatives.
Criteria for State Selection
1. Willing and able office of rural health (or grantee) staffers
2. Mix of kinds of hospital association relationships
3. Some states with Medicaid participation, some without
4. Mix of sizes of offices of rural health
5. Mix of states with large numbers of conversions and few conversions
6. Mix of states with varying amounts of grants
7. Active and interesting EMS projects
Criteria for Critical Access Hospital Selection
1. Mix of sizes (very small and not-so-small)
2. Mix of financial stability (highly vulnerable with reasonably strong)
3. Mix of administrative stability
4. Mix of isolation and geographic competition
5. Mix of hospital types: public with tax support, public without taxes, private, religious
6. Mix of management systems: owned by system, managed by a separate entity, etc.
7. Limited number of former MAF or RPCH hospitals
8. CAH status for at least a year at time of site visit
9. Willing and able to participate in the visit (not in bankruptcy, administrator in place for long enough to answer questions, staff willing to provide information for us)
| Site
Visit State (community names) |
Lead
Center |
| Iowa
(Hampton, Pocahontas) |
UM
(Minnesota) |
| Michigan (St.
Ignace, Deckerville) |
USM (Maine) |
| Nebraska
(Syracuse, Wahoo) |
UNC (No.
Carolina) |
| New Mexico
(Socorro, Truth or Consequences) |
UW
(Washington) |
| North Dakota
(Turtle Lake, McVille) |
UM
(Minnesota) |
| Oregon
(Seaside, Bandon) |
UW
(Washington) |
| Tennessee
(Pikeville, Centerville) |
UNC (No.
Carolina) |
| West Virginia
(Grafton, Spencer) |
USM (Maine) |
| West Virginia
(Grafton, Webster Springs), Oregon (Seaside, Bandon), Michigan
(Newberry, Sault Ste. Marie, St. Ignace, Brimley), South Dakota
(Martin, Pine Ridge, Custer) |
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Footnotes
1
There was also a $200,000 baseline grant issued less than one year before Year 01, which went to each eligible state grantee.
2
Source: http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/ocrh/.
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