Outpatient health care facilities that provide a broad range of diagnostic and treatment services to rural and medically-underserved areas

Description

A rural health clinic is a clinic located in a rural area designated as a shortage or medically-underserved area. It provides a broad range of diagnostic exams, tests and treatment services. The clinic staff includes one or more physicians and one or more physician assistants or nurse practitioners who provide primary medical care and outpatient health services.

Services may include:

• Primary adult and pediatric (child or adolescents) physician services,
• Prenatal care
• Dental care
• Specialty medicine
• Laboratory and radiological services
• Allied support services like nutrition and health education

Some rural health clinics may also offer public health services, such as immunizations and communicable disease screening and treatment.

This provider is a Medicare Certified Rural Health Clinic and subject to periodic inspection by the Minnesota Department of Health.

About This Location

This clinic participates in Reach Out and Read Minnesota. Reach Out and Read is an evidence-based program in which pediatric healthcare providers give books and developmental guidance to children and their families at routine well-child visits from infancy through age five. Reach Out and Read is endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics and The American Academy of Family Physicians.

Features

• Area Served by County
  • Koochiching County

• Evidence-Based Programs
  • Reach Out and Read clinic

• Payment
  • Medicaid (Medical Assistance)
  • Private health insurance
  • Private pay