{"id":405022,"date":"2026-01-13T18:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/405022\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:35:08","slug":"alabama-community-hopes-this-new-plan-can-save-its-struggling-rural-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/405022\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama community hopes this new plan can save its struggling rural medical center"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greenville city officials are hailing an agreement with a medical management company that they say would continue comprehensive medical services at the city\u2019s hospital. <\/p>\n

The city announced Monday a letter of intent with Frey Medical Management to pursue buying Regional Medical Center of Central Alabama (RMCCA).<\/p>\n

Last November, RMCCA announced it would transition to a rural emergency hospital,<\/a> saying the move would be its \u201cbest opportunity to achieve financial stability and continue serving the healthcare needs of the Greenville community.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the hospital closed, it would result in about 90 employees being laid off. <\/p>\n

A rural emergency hospital is a Medicare provider designation established by Congress in 2021. REHs maintain access to outpatient medical services in areas that may not be able to sustain a full-service hospital.<\/p>\n

However, as the city noted in an announcement, rural emergency hospitals in Alabama have \u201cexperienced significant challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis agreement allows Regional Medical Center to remain a full-service hospital, while also helping to retain jobs for our current employees who are vital to the care of our residents,\u201d the city said in a statement. \u201cPreserving a full service facility is essential to meeting the healthcare needs of Greenville and the surrounding area.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frey Medical Management is based in McMinnville, Tenn. Attempts to reach the company for comment were not immediately successful. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenville city officials are hailing an agreement with a medical management company that they say would continue comprehensive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":{"0":"post-405022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health-care","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}