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The source adds the following information: “analysis of non-federal general short-term or rural emergency hospitals, excluding those in U.S. territories. Rural is defined as nonmetropolitan. Excludes hospitals with special payment designations in urban areas as defined in this brief (e.g., 21% of critical access hospitals). Critical access hospitals (CAHs), sole community hospitals (SCHs), Medicare-dependent hospitals (MDHs), and rural emergency hospitals (REHs) are mutually exclusive. In 2023, 25% of rural hospitals were low-volume hospitals and 11% were rural referral centers (with some overlap). “Other payment designations” includes low-volume hospitals and rural referral centers that are not SCHs, MDHs, or REHs. CAHs cannot be low-volume hospitals or rural referral centers.”