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CARTHAGE â First, Carthage Area Hospital secured designation for a rural health clinic, which needed to be achieved before the 2020 census. Now, it is moving ahead with its plan for a new, consolidated campus, building a facility to house a new hospital along with four remote clinics.
In continuation of the hospital replacement project, Carthage Area Hospital will be expanding its footprint with a new attachment to its Walk-In Clinic/RHC site. This will allow for expanded primary care services in the area. Expected completion of the clinic is set for fall 2021.
CEO Richard Duvall has said the economic impact of the new campus will sustain the hospital for the next 40 years and will spur other economic development in the area. As previously reported, this is between a $60 million and $70 million program coming to Carthage.
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Stacie B. Dusetzina, PhD
Health in the US is inequitable. Racial and ethnic minority populations, most notably those who identify as Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, and Native American, American Indian, or Alaska Native, have more chronic disease,
1 worse self-reported health status,
2 and worse health outcomes than White individuals.
3 An increasing body of evidence points to access to care, quality of care, and social determinants of health, including the direct effects of racism and disadvantage, as playing key roles.
These issues are complex, but not intractable. Many of the circumstances that have led to the deep inequities observed in the US can be traced to either the intended or unintended consequences of policy decisions, and therefore those inequities can and should be addressed with policy solutions. In this Viewpoint we outline actions that the incoming federal administration could consider as they relate to access, quality, and social determinants o
Bucktail Medical Center (Soure: BMC Facebook)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Timothy J. Reeves has witnessed the pandemic on the front lines of the rural American health-care system. What follows are his personal reflections on that experience.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed here are the author’s views only and do not in any way reflect the views and opinions of the medical center, its board of directors, staff, other affiliated persons, or anyone directly or indirectly referenced within.
Bucktail Medical Center
Bucktail Medical Center is a 43-bed Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF), 16-bed Critical Access Hospital (CAH) community Rural Health Clinic (RHC), and Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance service. Located in the middle of Pennsylvania’s northern tier and within the Pennsylvania Wilds; BMC is likely the most remote health care facility in the state. The hospital dates back to 1909 as Renovo Hospital. In 1979 the facility was moved across the West Branch of the Susqueha