Becker's Healthcare January 8, 2025
Westfield (N.Y.) Memorial Hospital plans to end inpatient care and focus on providing outpatient and emergency care if CMS and the New York State Department of Health approve its application to transition to a rural emergency hospital.
Under the REH designation, Westfield Memorial, part of Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network, would close its four inpatient beds but continue providing emergency services, observation care and — if elected by the hospital — additional outpatient services that do not exceed an annual per-patient average of 24 hours.
In exchange, the hospital would receive a 5% increase in Medicare payments and an average facility fee payment of about $3.2 million a year.
Allegheny Health believes converting the hospital to a REH...
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