Rural Emergency Hospitals

This Perspective discusses the Rural Emergency Hospital designation, outlining structural flaws in its design and offering suggestions on how to address those flaws to encourage wider adoption.

Corresponding Author: George Vivek Koshy, DO, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 1 Convention Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (koshyg@pennmedicine.upenn.edu).

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