Copper Queen Community Hospital planning expansion, a boon for southern Arizona rural health care.
Expansion will allow hospital to do moresurgeons and expand the specialties the hospital already has, said Seamon.
Tucson, which has the bigger hospital, is about an hour and a half drive from Bisbee and an additional half hour from Douglas. This is exemplified not only through rural health clinics spread out through the county but also the hospital's visiting medical professionals. Seamon also highlighted the high prevalence of diabetes in the community and a need for colon cancer screenings, cervical screenings and mammograms.
When hospitals treat patients without health insurance, the medical institution must absorb that uncompensated care, he said. These clinics tend to be affiliated with critical access hospitals, like the Copper Queen Community Hospital. One benefit to being a critical access hospital, is access to better compensation from public payers like Medicare and Medicaid, Derksen said.According to Derksen, retention and recruitment are some of the biggest challenges in the field of rural health care.
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