{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Radio Chatskill","title":"Bresnahan, Dr. Oz Meet NEPA Health Leaders on Rural Care Funding","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":607,"description":"Pennsylvania’s 8th District Representative Rob Bresnahan brought a well-known guest to the region Friday: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. The two met with hospital executives and local health officials to hear directly about the challenges facing healthcare providers across Northeast Pennsylvania.“The purpose of the visit was for them to talk with local representatives and local healthcare officials and hear about what the needs of the region were and bring that back to Washington to potentially help get local health systems in rural parts of Pennsylvania and elsewhere across the country the help that they need,” said Liam Mayo, news editor of The River Reporter.Much of the discussion centered around the Rural Health Transformation Fund, a $50 billion program included in this year’s federal budget aimed at bolstering rural healthcare systems. “A lot of what Bresnahan and Dr. Oz talked about was ways that they were hearing to make sure that money was going to be effective in actually helping the needs of health systems and health care in rural parts of the country,” Mayo said.At a press conference following a closed-door roundtable, local healthcare leaders shared their perspectives. Jim Pettinato, CEO of Wayne Memorial Hospital, highlighted the challenges faced by smaller hospitals. “It was nice to be able to sort of hear very clearly what the expectations were of the metrics… and to be able to sort of talk about some of those metrics,” Pettinato said. Mayo added, “Hearing from Wayne Memorial specifically as a smaller hospital and making sure to adjust the metrics… understanding that Wayne Memorial Hospital is a smaller hospital and can't necessarily do some of the things in terms of IT deployment that larger hospital systems would be able to do.”In Pike County, which lacks a hospital or urgent care facilities, the focus was on emergency services. Mayo said, “That puts a lot of burden on the county's emergency services, its...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q7XXsnSXT_u4mZLCn3chUorwDmUD_kWiB272D6emB18/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80N2Uy/OGY5MWUwZThkYTEw/NDVkZGM2ZGZkZDIw/ZjliOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}