What does RPCH stand for?

These steps included: creating a PHO to serve as the managed care arm for the healthcare group and its affiliated physicians, increasing the operational efficiency across the healthcare group's continuum of care, extending its relationships with quaternary medical centers and rural primary care hospitals, and participating in a regional not-for-profit health alliance for regional managed care contracting initiatives.

According to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA): While it may be prudent for a hospital to require a physician to conduct a screening examination in every instance, there may be hospitals, especially rural primary care hospitals, in which a physician is not available to provide a medical screening examination.

1991, Wright, George, Suzanne Felt, Anthony Wellever, Timothy Lake, Stephen Sweetland, Limited-Service Hospital Pioneers: Challenges and Successes of the Essential Access Community Hospital, Rural Primary Care Hospital Program and Medical Assistance Facility Demonstration.