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5. 75. A Critical Access Hospital (CAH) is a hospital that is certified to receive cost-based reimbursement from Medicare. The reimbursement that CAH's receive is intended to improve their financial performance and thereby reduce hospital closures. Each hospital must review its own situation to determine if CAH status would be advantageous. CAH's are certified under a different set of Medicare conditions of participation (CoP) that are more flexible that an acute care hospitals CoP. A map marking the location of CAH's can be accessed at (last visited March 3, 2011). As of September, 2010, there were 1, 320 certified Critical Access Hospitals located throughout the U.S. CAH's must be located in a rural area and meet one of the following criteria: (1) located 35 miles or more from another hospital or 15 miles from another hospital in mountainous terrain or areas with only secondary roads. More detailed information can be accessed in a letter sent from CMS to State Survey Agency Directors September 7, 2007, available at (last visited March 3, 2011).