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♪ one louisiana hospital having a real scare during the height of hurricane ida. with one of its generators failed, leaving hospital staff scrambling to move patients out of the affected area. patients on ventilators had to be bagged by hand which means hospital staff had to manually push air in and out of the patient's lungs. the patients then had to be transported throughout the hospital's stairwell to another part of the hospital that still had power. ceo of the regional health system greg stock joins us now. greg, thank you for joining us. where do things stand this morning. do you hav...

By News Director Jared Atha Congressman Frank Lucas of Cheyenne (R-OK) and Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Jim Inhofe (R-OK) announced recently, after months of work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Harmon Memorial Hospital in Hollis has received an extension of their designation to continue to serve the community as a Critical Access Hospital. In March, Lankford, Inhofe, and Lucas sent a letter to then-Acting CMS Administrator Liz Richter to push for Harmon Hospital to remain a critical access hospital. Earlier this year, Lucas cosponsored a bipartisan piece of legisla...

Hospitals are critical to our state’s future. The Rural Emergency Hospitals designation will help with funding. By Ron Estes © Submitted Rep. Ron Estes An important realization to come from the COVID-19 pandemic, is the significance of rural hospitals. With mobility restrictions placed on communities, Kansans depended on these facilities for critical health needs more than usual. Rural hospitals are especially important in our state. Kansas has 82 of these facilities, the second-most in the country, with only Texas higher at 87. Across America, nearly 60 million people li...

The Daily Yonder Report: As Obstetrics Units in Rural Hospitals Close, Black Rural Moms and Infants Face Higher Mortality Rates The research found that that more units are being closed in counties with majority non-white populations. The closures tend to affect small hospitals, often designated as Critical Access Hospitals, more often. Share this: A new study from the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center has found that when rural hospitals close their obstetrics units, it puts Black and Indigenous mothers at a far greater risk. Julia Interrante, and Katy Kozhimannil,...

Fallon Medical Complex (FMC) announced it has been named a 2021 Top 100 Critical Access Hospital by The Chartis Center for Rural Health. This annual award honoring rural hospital performance is determined by the results of the iVantage Health Analytics’ Hospital Strength INDEX. This is the second year in a row that FMC has received this honor. Based entirely on publicly available data, the INDEX is the industry’s most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural hospital performance. Utilizing 50 independent indicators, the INDEX assesses performance across eight pillars of perfo...