The Office of Rural Health Policy's Small Rural
Hospital Improvement (SHIP) Grant Program provides funding to small
rural hospitals to help them do any or all of the following: 1)
pay for costs related to the implementation of PPS, 2) comply with
provisions of HIPAA and 3) reduce medical errors and support quality
improvement. To be eligible for these grants, a hospital must be:
(1) small is defined as 49 available beds or less, as reported on
the hospitals most recently filed Medicare Cost Report, (2)
rural is defined as located outside a Metropolitan
Statistical Area (MSA); or located in a rural census tract of
a MSA as determined under the Goldsmith Modification or the Rural
Urban Commuting Areas, and (3) hospital is defined as a non-Federal,
short-term, general acute care facility. In addition, all designated
Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) are eligible, as well as hospitals
with fewer than 50 beds located in an area designated by any State
law or regulation as a rural area or as a rural hospital. There
is no requirement for matching funds with this program.
For information on what
areas are eligible for SHIP Grants see Geographic
Eligibility for Rural Health Grant Programs.
If you are a hospital, for
further information contact your State
Office of Rural Health.
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SHIP grantee
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