Rural Health

Critical Access Hospitals- Find a list of Indiana's Critical Access Hospitals

A Critical Access Hospital (CAH) is a hospital that is certified to receive cost-based reimbursement from Medicare. The reimbursement that CAHs receive is intended to improve their financial performance and thereby reduce hospital closures. Each hospital must review its own situation to determine if CAH status would be advantageous. CAHs are certified under a different set of Medicare Conditions of Participation (CoP) that are more flexible than the acute care hospital CoPs.

Click here to view a Critical Access Hospital Fact Sheet.

Indiana Critical Access Hospital Program Map
Find a color coded map detailing hospital services in Indiana's rural communities. The map shows the rural counties with no acute care hospitals, rural counties with no OB services, and the 34 counties that have critical access hospitals.

IN FOCUS: New Online Networking from NRHA

NRHA Connect is a free, online networking community for members that allows you to:

  • stay on top of key legislation, research and rural health innovations with user-driven information exchanges.
  • make connections that will serve you well the rest of your career.
  • create a profile and share your ideas in a blog.

To get started, visit www.connect.NRHArural.org.
Click on the directory tab.
Enter your e-mail address as the username.
Complete your profile.

For more information on how to connect to the connected, contact Sharon Hutinett at 816-756-3140 x 17or shutinett@NRHArural.org


Rural Health Resources:

Indiana Rural Health Association
Council on Small and Rural Hospitals
Lugar Center for Rural Health
Indiana AHEC