U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has introduced legislation intended to allow closed rural hospitals to reopen, a move that potentially could help Fort Scott where an emergency department is set to shut down later this month.
The bill expands a law allowing facilities operating as either a critical access hospital or a rural hospital with no more than 50 beds to get a special designation giving them access to federal funding to continue operating with limited services rather than closing.
Congress created the Rural Emergency Hospital Designation in 2020 in response to loss of emergency . . .
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