Hold Mail Service. If you re going away for a while, take advantage of our Request Hold Mail service. We ll keep your mail safely at your local Post Officeâ¢ until you return. Schedule the service up to 30 days in advance, or by 2AM CST (Mon-Sat) on the start date. Each address can have one Hold Mail scheduled at a time.
Critical Access Hospital (Health Care) Law and Legal Definition. Critical access hospital (CAH) is a rural primary health care hospital that gives limited outpatient and inpatient hospital services to people in rural areas. CAH offers essential services to medicare patients and their services are reimbursed by medicare on a reasonable cost basis.
Almost one fifth of the US population lives in a rural area. Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) and other small, rural hospitals provide vital services in rural areas and often serve as the foundations of rural health care delivery systems.