Alliance is Mississippi’s first hospital to transition to rural emergency hospital status in exchange for monthly payments from the federal government.
Rural emergency status is a step below critical access hospitals, which must have 25 or fewer inpatient beds.
The hospital has already begun working with Tupelo-based North Mississippi Medical Center to transfer patients, according to Mississippi Today.
Mississippi has 38 rural hospitals at risk of closure.
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