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  2. Rural health clinic - Wikipedia

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    A rural health clinic (RHC) is a clinic located in a rural, medically under-served area in the United States that has a separate reimbursement structure from the standard medical office under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. RHCs were established by the Rural Health Clinic Services Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-210), (Section 1905 of the Social ...

  3. Rural health - Wikipedia

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    Rural areas within the U.S. have been found to have a lower life expectancy than urban areas by approximately 2.4 years. [17] Rural U.S. populations are at a greater risk of mortality due to non-communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke, as well as unintentional injuries such as automobile accidents and opioid overdoses compared to urban ...

  4. National Rural Health Association - Wikipedia

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    The National Rural Health Association (NRHA) is a national nonprofit professional association in the United States with more than 18,000 members. The association's mission is to provide leadership on rural health issues, which it attempts to carry out through education, communication, and advocacy.

  5. List of AdventHealth hospitals - Wikipedia

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    Texas Health Huguley Hospital Fort Worth South: Burleson: Texas Yes Aeronautical chart and airport information for 56XA at SkyVector Formerly named Huguley Memorial Medical Center [57] Texas Health Hospital Mansfield: Mansfield: Texas Yes Aeronautical chart and airport information for XA64 at SkyVector Opened December 1, 2020 [58]

  6. Community health centers in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By 2010, assisted by funding received through the ARRA, health centers had expanded to serve more than 18 million people. The health center program's annual federal funding grew from $1.16 billion in the 2001 fiscal year to $2.6 billion in the 2011 fiscal year. [60] Health centers served 24,295,946 patients in 2015. [61]

  7. Retail clinics in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As of December 2015, there are more than 2,000 retail clinics located in 41 states and Washington, DC in the United States. [2] Retail clinics are staffed by physician assistants or nurse practitioners and most are open seven days a week – twelve hours a day during the workweek and eight hours a day on the weekend. [3]

  8. Free clinic - Wikipedia

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    A free clinic or walk in clinic is a health care facility in the United States offering services to economically disadvantaged individuals for free or at a nominal cost. The need for such a clinic arises in societies where there is no universal healthcare, and therefore a social safety net has arisen in its place. [ 1 ]

  9. List of Veterans Affairs medical facilities - Wikipedia

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    Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.