Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs)

HMC'S CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE

HMC has gained direct experience in the development of rural primary care hospitals (which were predecessors to CAHs) during a demonstration project conducted by the Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA). In addition, HMC's partners helped write the CAH enabling legislation in the state of Missouri. HMC also participated in an engagement with the Missouri Hospital Association and the Missouri Department of Health (Office of Rural Health) to model the impact of CAH status on four hospitals in rural Missouri.

HMC is one of two recognized and certified healthcare consulting firms to perform feasibility studies in Tennessee under contract with the Tennessee Hospital Association through their state contract with the Office of Rural Health (ORH), and is authorized by the State of Oklahoma to provide CAH consulting services under the auspices of the Oklahoma ORH. The State of West Virginia also recognizes HMC as qualified to provide CAH consulting services. HMC has provided consulting services and/or managed critical access hospitals in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, West Virginia, and Colorado as January 2003.