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Originally Posted by BroadHopper
In light of increasing health care costs and so called efforts to curb it.
In the past hospital buildings were built very practical and sanitary.
Today's hospital are built to rival the Taj Mahal!
What's up with that??????  |
It's call grant money.
Also, HH will fall into a different status for receiving payment from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) now that they are a critical access hospital. Since they dropped their maternity unit, they will have less overhead cost (read: malpractice insurance costs).
Additionally, many of the improvements you see now are because of the safety standards and privacy laws that the hospitals have to adhere to now. It may seem "extreme" but if the hospital did not make these changes, they would no longer receive payment from CMS or possibly from other insurance providers.