The Value Surgical Services Bring to Critical Access Hospitals

Survey the Determinants of Access to Preventive Dental Services

Background and Aim: Military dentistry combines patient-centered care with public health views to create services agile and comprehensive. The effect of oral disease on military personnel can significantly damage the individual's operational ability. A significant concern of various countries in providing universal health coverage is access to dental services and oral health care, which require...

Three revised requirements for critical access hospitals.

Developing Financial Benchmarks for Critical Access Hospitals

This study developed and applied benchmarks for five indicators included in the CAH Financial Indicators Report, an annual, hospital-specific report distributed to all critical access hospitals (CAHs). An online survey of Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officers was used to establish benchmarks. Indicator values for 2004, 2005, and 2006 were calculated for 421 CAHs and hospital per...

Intensive care in critical access hospitals.

CONTEXT Although critical access hospitals (CAHs) have limitations on number of acute care beds and average length of stay, some of them provide intensive care unit (ICU) services. PURPOSE To describe the facilities, equipment, and staffing used by CAHs for intensive care, the types of patients receiving ICU care, and the perceived impact of closing the ICU on CAH staff and the local communit...

Revisions to Outpatient Record Review. Requirements for Critical Access Hospitals.

The Joint Commission recently revised a Medical Staff (MS) requirement for critical access hospitals based on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) January 16, 2015, revisions to its interpretive guidelines related to the review of outpatient records (S&C: 15-19-CAH).* Effective July 1, 2015, Standard MS.03.01.03, element of performance (EP) 11 has been revised to clarify that a s...