H.R. 1191 — Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025

This section provides the short title of the Act as the “Supporting Access to Rural Community Hospitals Act of 2025.”

This section waives certain distance requirements for hospitals seeking designation as critical access hospitals during a 1-year period beginning 6 months after enactment, by adding a new category of eligible facilities: rural community hospitals that were participating in the section 410A demonstration program on the date of enactment. (Thus, during that 1-year window, such hospitals may qualify for critical access hospital designation even if they do not meet the existing distance-based criteria.) It also makes a conforming amendment to the section 410A demonstration program definition by replacing a reference to hospitals that are “not” critical access hospitals with a reference to hospitals that are not critical access hospitals as defined in section 1861(mm)(1) of the Social Security Act.