Editing Highland County, Virginia (section)

===Healthcare===
Highland County does not have a [[hospital]], the closest being in neighboring Augusta and Bath Counties, such as [[Augusta Health]].<ref name="services">{{cite web|title=Comprehensive Plan: Community Services|publisher=Highland County|url=http://www.highlandcova.org/Compplan/Commverb.htm|access-date=December 28, 2013|archive-date=December 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230232221/http://www.highlandcova.org/Compplan/Commverb.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>  The Highland Medical Center, Inc. is located in Monterey and is the only general patient care medical facility in Highland County. The center opened in 1996 and became a [[Federally Qualified Health Center]] in 2003.<ref name="services"/><ref name="commerce health">{{cite web|title=Highland County > Medical|publisher=Highland County Chamber of Commerce|url=http://www.highlandcounty.org/medical.html|access-date=December 28, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230235232/http://www.highlandcounty.org/medical.html|archive-date=December 30, 2013}}</ref>  Highland County is one of four counties in Virginia and one of only 50 counties in states east of the [[Mississippi River]] (excluding [[Minnesota]]) that is designated as a frontier county.<ref name="frontier">{{cite web|title=Frontier Areas from 2010 U.S. Census|publisher=National Center for Frontier Communities|url=http://www.frontierus.org/documents/2010_frontier-areas-and%20pop-densities.xlsx|format=XLS|access-date=December 30, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230234113/http://www.frontierus.org/documents/2010_frontier-areas-and%20pop-densities.xlsx|archive-date=December 30, 2013}}</ref>  This designation is applied because of Highland's remote characteristics with a low population density and limited access to healthcare and other services.<ref name="commerce health"/><ref name="frontier def">{{cite web|title=What is the definition of frontier?|publisher=Rural Health Information Hub|url=https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/topics/frontier#definition|access-date=February 15, 2018}}</ref>