But Congress allowed hospital investments, in part because doctors were often the only ones willing to open rural hospitals.
A murder takes place in a rural British hospital.
If it hadn't been for him this institution would be merely another tiny, rural hospital.
We're very sensitive to the fact that small rural hospitals do not have the same resources as large urban ones.
Its status was changed from health centre to rural hospital in 2000, with a full-time medical doctor.
Most show no symptoms worth noticing, but some feel strange enough to check in at the rural hospital.
The care given in rural hospitals must respect the culture of the community.
Hundreds of rural hospitals would also get a $1 billion break over the five years.
But a majority of rural hospitals lost money on their Medicare business last year.
It has a higher secondary school for girls, a police station and also a 12 bed rural hospital.