1.   These rural hospitals are ill-equipped to handle such emergencies.

2.   The committee noted that although significant sums had been invested in rural hospitals, those still relied heavily on local GPs and larger district general hospitals.

3.   And it ordered the delivery of subsidized phone services to rural hospitals, elementary and secondary schools and libraries.

4.   And rural hospitals could use such a network to quickly transmit X-rays to research hospitals.

5.   As a result, in Japan the compound is routinely stocked in rural hospitals where pesticide poisonings are more common, but not in urban hospitals.

6.   A CAT scan, immediately available at all major medical centers and most rural hospitals today, can determine if there is bleeding into the brain.

7.   A large and ill-defined number of poor farmers in central China have been infected with HIV through unsanitary and slipshod practices at rural hospitals and at blood collection stations.

8.   But Congress allowed hospital investments, in part because doctors were often the only ones willing to open rural hospitals.

9.   But before that could happen, Congress decided cost-based Medicare payments should be available to all rural hospitals.

10.   But for low-volume rural hospitals, a few Medicare patients requiring large amounts of care can be a financial disaster.