Whether you are considering RHC certification for your rural practice or you’ve been certified for years – the inspection process is detailed so you’ll want to be prepared! Take our short, unofficial, RHC inspection readiness quiz and see your score to get a feel for how ready you are for an inspection. [ays_quiz id=”3″] What’s […]
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A swing bed is a physical hospital bed that can be used for two purposes – acute and post-acute care.
The purpose is to allow patients in rural communities to receive quality post-acute care within their community. Prior to Medicare’s swing bed program, hospitals were only permitted to provide acute care often leaving discharged patients and families with no local options for needed skilled nursing care.
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Azalea RHC Billing Overview Rural health clinics are struggling to survive. Aging populations, changing regulatory requirements, managing denials and finding and retaining qualified staff are just some of the reasons. The #1 challenge facing rural health clinics is declining reimbursements. Built by billers, for billers, Azalea Health gives you options. Watch our short overview video,
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What Is An RHC & Why Are They So Important? An RHC, or Rural Health Clinic, is a rurally located medical clinic providing healthcare services to patients in underserved areas. Founded in 1977, the RHC program incentivizes physicians to provide primary care for rural residents while also encouraging the use of mid-level providers. RHCs go
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60 Million people live in rural America. Rural areas have higher rates of chronic diseases and yet have access to fewer primary care physicians and specialists. Azalea Heath is committed to providing rural areas with modern and affordable technology–including, EHR, RCM, telehealth and more. We care, because rural health matters.
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Source: HUFFPOST If you want to watch a rural community die, kill its hospital.After the Lower Oconee Community Hospital shut down in June 2014, other mainstays of the community followed. The bank and the pharmacy in the small town of Glenwood shuttered. Then the only grocery store in all of Wheeler County closed in the middle of August this year.On