31.   Rural hospitals need to provide a broader array of services than small suburban hospitals, but they cannot offer everything that a major medical center has.

32.   So the hospital applied last year to a Medicare pilot project, the Rural Primary Care Hospital program, aimed at saving rural hospitals from bankruptcy.

33.   Some rural hospitals have closed while others have shuttered their home health care operations and dropped their skilled nursing facilities, she said.

34.   Still, rural hospitals again are expected to take a high profile in the upcoming Legislature.

35.   The Georgia Legislature has taken notice, and some rural hospitals have formed a for-profit company to attract managed care contracts.

36.   The issue of guaranteeing quality medical care in rural hospitals goes way beyond anesthesia.

37.   The revised bill would increase reimbursements to rural hospitals and strengthen fraud and abuse provisions that Democrats had attacked as weak.

38.   These regions tend to have more rural hospitals or include states in which the company lacks a large network.

39.   They were disentangled and taken to a rural hospital.

40.   What if Medicare payment restrictions force some already teetering rural hospitals into insolvency?