Here are seven hospitals changing their designations:
- Farmington, Maine-based Franklin Memorial Hospital is applying for critical access status.
- Carroll, Iowa-based St. Anthony Regional Hospital will apply to become a critical access hospital.
- Holly Springs, Miss.-based Alliance HealthCare System received rural emergency designation after some confusion around the hospital’s application status.
- La Grange, Texas-based St. Mark’s Medical Center received approval as a rural emergency hospital after cutting half of its staff.
- Malone, N.Y.-based Alice Hyde Medical Center is applying to become a critical access hospital.
- Mitchell, S.D.-based Avera Queen of Peace Hospital changed its designation to a critical access hospital.
- Gallup, N.M.-based Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital is applying to become a critical access hospital.
