Clarification of Rural Eligibility Status for Hospital Swing Beds, Critical Access Hospitals

Guidance is provided on determining rural location for CAHs, hospital swing beds & RHCs for a facility seeking CAH designation must be located outside a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) or be treated as rural, and a hospital seeking swing bed status or a clinic seeking RHC certification must be located outside an area delineated as "urbanized" by the US Bureau of the Census (Census Bureau).