Washington, Oct. 10 -- Rep. Adrian Smith issued the following press release:
Yesterday, Congressman Adrian Smith (NE-03) joined Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz for a tour of Memorial Community Hospital and Health System, a critical access hospital in Blair.
During the tour, Smith and Oz met with hospital staff to discuss the challenges facing rural healthcare providers and opportunities to strengthen access to care through telemedicine, support rural healthcare workforce development, and advance initiatives like the Rural Health Transformation Program.
"Critical access hospitals like Memorial Community Hospital play a vital role in the communities they serve, by ensuring patients have access ...