North Adams Regional Hospital is still waiting on the critical access hospital designation crucial to funding the operation

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Berkshire Health Systems is currently working on obtaining a "critical access hospital" designation after an initial survey from the state Department of Public Health, on behalf of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in March.
47% : The health system has cleared all the hurdles necessary to serve; though it cannot pay for patients through the Medicare and Medicaid refund that comes with being a critical access hospital until DPH conducts an unannounced survey and deems that the hospital satisfies the requirements.

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