East Adams Rural Hospital
East Adams Rural Hospital is a twenty-bed Critical Access Hospital located in Ritzville, Washington, at the junction of Interstate 90 and US Route 395. Adams County Public Hospital District #2 operates the hospital in Ritzville, as well as Medical Clinics in Ritzville and Washtucna, and is associated with the Ritzville, Lind, and Washtucna Volunteer Ambulance Associations. Together, these organizations serve a 1,500 square miles (3,900 km2) area of eastern Adams County, Washington, and a District population of about 3,900. The hospital Emergency Room is a Level V Trauma Care facility that serves its community, as well as accident victims from the adjacent major highways.
The umbrella District has long been known as "East Adams Rural Hospital", but on August 28th, 2014, the Board of Commissioners voted to change the District's DBA to "East Adams Rural Healthcare" to better reflect the scope of its operations, in that the District is acquiring, by gift, the skilled-nursing facility known as "Life Care Center of Ritzville", currently an operation of Life Care Centers of America. The District will thus be operating the hospital in Ritzville, the medical clinic in Ritzville, a medical clinic in nearby Washtucna, and the skilled-nursing facility in Ritzville (which will, when formally acquired, be known as "East Adams Rural Healthcare, Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation").
See also
List of hospitals in Washington
External links
- EARH home page
- "Doctor-hospital fight roils Washington farming town" (Spokane Spokesman-Review)
- What is a Critical-Access Hospital? - Washington State Department of Health
Coordinates: 47°07′16″N 118°22′19″W / 47.12111°N 118.37194°W