They are adding six to eight rooms to the emergency department among other changes, improvements. The ambulance entrance will remain the same. It also plans to have a different entrance for people who walk into the emergency department to be treated.
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Administration offices and other professional offices will be moved to another building adjacent to the hospital. They have just recently opened a cardiology clinic and they are working on increasing space for oncology patients. The hospital having some remodeling done. There are 16 Critical Access Hospitals in the states including Rumford Hospital and Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway. On average, it has inpatient length of stay less than 96 hours.Ĭritical Access Hospitals is a change in provider designation and not a downgrade, Sergio said. Currently Franklin Memorial reimbursed between 40% to 60% of cost to provide care for Medicare or Medicaid patients, according to information in a pamphlet at the meeting. Under the critical access hospital status the hospital would be paid at 101% of reasonable costs by Medicare/Medicaid. Franklin Memorial also has programs to help those who are struggling with medical bills for those eligible, she added. "This is roughly 15% of our patient populations and the increase is charged by Medicare and not the hospital, Sergio said. There be a change in copays that a small portion of the hospital's traditional Medicare patients will see, she said. The majority of patients will not see an increase in cost, she said. There will be no change for patients who are there on Sept. 1, it is the first day of its new fiscal year. The plan to go to a Critical Access Hospital on Oct. The hospital is currently considered a sole community hospital. The key is a federal regulation changed in late 2002 which expanded the distance criteria from 35 miles to another hospital to include or a 15-mile drive of mountainous terrain, or area with only secondary roads, Sergio said. The hospital is making the change because of regulation change based on the distance between FMH and nearest hospitals of Redington-Fairview in Skowhegan and Rumford Hospital in Rumford. It will also keep the hospital services/ departments of medical/surgical, obstetrics, emergency department, occupational health, medical department offices, therapies, mammography. Critical Assess will keep the same outpatient services of laboratory, imaging and day surgery.
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