- Title
- Clarification of Rural Eligibility Status for Hospital Swing Beds, Critical Access Hospitals
- Memo #
- 11-33-Hospital/CAH/RHC
- Posting Date
- 07/15/2011
- Fiscal Year
- 2011
- Summary
- Guidance is provided on determining rural location for CAHs, hospital swing beds & RHCs for a facility seeking CAH designation must be located outside a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) or be treated as rural, and a hospital seeking swing bed status or a clinic seeking RHC certification must be located outside an area delineated as "urbanized" by the US Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau).
