Carthage Area Hospital to receive critical-access designation
By Rebecca Madden, Watertown Daily Times, N.Y. | |
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Chief Operating Officer
"This is part of our recovery plan we've talked about for two years,"
Financial struggles related to reimbursement rates, billing problems and other issues have plagued the hospital for the past several years. Within the last two, the hospital has reduced staff, consolidated beds, purchased new machines and increased outpatient services, among other changes, as it works toward overall stability.
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Under the current reimbursement structure, he said, the hospital receives only
"I don't believe there'll be any issues with that," he said.
In preparation for that designation,
Other criteria include being located in a rural health area, offering 24-hour emergency care, maintaining no more than 25 inpatient beds and having an average annual length of stay of 96 hours or less per patient for acute care, according to CMS.
"Now we're moving in the right direction," he said. "I think staff moral is better than it has been, and they're rallying around the hospital."
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Both Samaritan and
A call Thursday to Samaritan was not returned immediately.
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