Hospitals are critical to our state's future. The Rural Emergency Hospitals designation will help with funding.

Hospitals are critical to our state’s future. The Rural Emergency Hospitals designation will help with funding.
By Ron Estes
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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 live in areas that depend on rural hospitals.
Unfortunately, many of our rural hospitals have been under threat of closure for decades due to outdated regulation and funding laws. After too many closures in the 1980s and 1990s, Congress passed a well-intended law to define a new type of rural hospital called Critical Access Hospitals. One of the requirements was that rural hospitals must maintain 25 acute care inpatient beds.

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