What does CAH stand for?

The Guide focuses on small healthcare facilities up to 90,000 sq ft, including acute care facilities, outpatient surgery centers, critical access hospitals, and inpatient community hospitals.

CMS refused to remove the on-site supervision requirement entirely, even for critical access hospitals, as the agency believes that permitting NPPs to provide the supervision should relieve the burden providers face in attempting to arrange for physician supervision.

For example, a Critical Access Hospital could receive federal funds for an "aging-in-place" senior facility, as well as funding to create a child care center in which those rural seniors could assist in raising the community's children, in the place they love.

To our knowledge, this is the first time three critical access hospitals have worked together like this," said Jeanne Ryer of the Endowment for Health.

Gathering its data from a Federal study (Hospital Care) in which short-term acute care and critical access hospitals voluntarily reported on quality measures in order to receive an incentive payment established by law in 2003, the report assesses hospitals ratings on 24 quality measures (the first edition only included 17) and compares them to state and national averages and to other "best practices" hospitals.

Reason for the revision The new and revised standards are applicable to the hospital, critical access hospital, and ambulatory care programs.

The increase will go to about 1,800 facilities, including hospitals which only treat psychiatric patients, distinct psychiatric units in acute care hospitals, and critical access hospitals that are paid under a prospective payment system.

Holmes has served as administrator of Littleton Regional Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital managed by Quorum Health Resources, Inc.