Do Transition Grants Help Rural Hospitals?

Congress introduced the Rural Health Care Transition (RHCT) Grant Program in 1989 to assist financially troubled, small rural hospitals. This article discusses grant effects on the second cohort of hospitals to complete their 3-year grants. Although three-quarters of the grantees implemented all or...

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Autores principales: Wooldridge, Judith, Cheh, Valerie, Thompson, Rachel, Moreno, Lorenzo, Holden, Nancy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CENTERS for MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES 1995
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Access to Health Care Services in Rural Areas: Delivery and Financing Issues
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10153474
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Thompson, Rachel
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description Congress introduced the Rural Health Care Transition (RHCT) Grant Program in 1989 to assist financially troubled, small rural hospitals. This article discusses grant effects on the second cohort of hospitals to complete their 3-year grants. Although three-quarters of the grantees implemented all or most of their goals, 11 percent could not implement a viable project. Grantees added or upgraded 523 services with the help of their grants, especially outpatient and social services, most of them financially self-supporting. Except among the largest hospitals, there was no evidence that the grants improved grantee finances. Management appeared unaffected by the grants.
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spelling pubmed-41935652014-11-04 Do Transition Grants Help Rural Hospitals? Wooldridge, Judith Cheh, Valerie Thompson, Rachel Moreno, Lorenzo Holden, Nancy Health Care Financ Rev Access to Health Care Services in Rural Areas: Delivery and Financing Issues Congress introduced the Rural Health Care Transition (RHCT) Grant Program in 1989 to assist financially troubled, small rural hospitals. This article discusses grant effects on the second cohort of hospitals to complete their 3-year grants. Although three-quarters of the grantees implemented all or most of their goals, 11 percent could not implement a viable project. Grantees added or upgraded 523 services with the help of their grants, especially outpatient and social services, most of them financially self-supporting. Except among the largest hospitals, there was no evidence that the grants improved grantee finances. Management appeared unaffected by the grants. CENTERS for MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES 1995 /pmc/articles/PMC4193565/ /pubmed/10153474 Text en
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