Essential Hospitals Facilitate Rural Access to Care
Essential Hospitals play an indispensable role in keeping all Americans healthy, including rural Americans. In this episode, explore how our members meet patients where they are through integrated systems of care and training of health care providers.
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Beyond the Pandemic: The Future of Telehealth at Essential Hospitals
In communities that otherwise lack access to care, essential hospitals reach outside their walls to meet patients’ needs. Telehealth services have proved to be an important tool for providers to increase access to care for underserved populations. In this episode, learn how essential hospitals use telehealth to provide patient-centered care that best meets the unique needs and circumstances of individuals and communities.
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Hospital at Home: Transforming Inpatient Care by Extending the Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver
Essential Hospitals are using an innovative program – the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver – to enhance care delivery, improve patient outcomes, and address broader health equity issues. In this episode, learn about what the program is and how essential hospitals utilize the program to innovatively meet the needs of the communities they serve.
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340B Savings: A Lifeline for Essential Hospitals
Essential hospitals operate on narrow margins and rely on indispensable programs, such as the 340B Drug Pricing Program, to stay out of the red. In this episode, learn about what the program is, who it serves, and how the savings it produces are used to support eligible hospitals’ communities and patients.
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Site-Neutral Policies Disproportionately Harm Essential Hospitals and At-Risk Communities
Essential hospitals operate large ambulatory networks to bring care to people where they live and work. These clinics often are the only source of primary and specialty care for underserved people. This reach into communities is key to ensuring continuity of care for patients who face health risks due to lack of transportation, housing insecurity, and other social factors. But so-called “site-neutral” payment policies threaten that care by making clinic expansion financially unsustainable.
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