Rural Emergency Hospitals by state
We list 30 Rural Emergency Hospitals across 7 states, using CMS data published July 2026.
Rural Emergency Hospital is the newest Medicare hospital designation, available since 2023. These are rural hospitals that have stopped admitting inpatients and now provide emergency and outpatient care only. For a patient it means a real emergency department is still open locally, but an admission will mean a transfer elsewhere. The category is small and growing, and most directories have not caught up with it.
Designation from the CMS Hospital General Information dataset. States with fewer than three are not listed separately; those hospitals still appear in the main state directory. How this data works.