Hundreds of rural hospitals across the United States are teetering on the edge of closure, with their financial status increasingly in peril, a new report reveals.
Small rural hospitals are forced to close because they are not being paid enough to cover the cost of delivering care to patients in rural areas, whereas urban hospitals and larger rural hospitals are able to make large profits on services to patients with private insurance.3Many small rural ho...
Because of widespread congressional concern that rural hospital closures may jeopardize access to medical care, 33 Senators requested that GAO investigate why such hospitals are closing and what impact the closures have on rural communities. They also asked that GAO assess Medicare's role in closures...
First, we used data from all 50 states to examine how the composition of rural hospitals changed from January 2007 to December 2019 in terms of remaining independent, becoming affiliated, or closing. Second, we drew from multiple sources to describe hospitals that were already affiliated at ...
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Effecting change in these ways, however, takes time, something rural hospitals do not have. Nearly half arelosing moneyand 21 percent areat high riskof closing unless their financial conditions materially improve. While rural hospitals can do little to accelerate legislation or adoption of natio...
And they have the functionality to use that data in innovative ways to improve patient care and hospital management. As a chief medical information officer told Cerner:“We’re a small, rural-based hospital. Unfortunately, those are closing left and right. If you don’t do things to keep ...
Literature review suggests that rural hospitals are in the worst financial conditions due to several factors: They are smaller, located in remote areas, and they provide less specialized services due to their problems with employing well-qualified staff. We decided to check whether it is true in ...
While urban areas aroundNew York City,Los Angelesand greaterChicagohave the greatest concentrations of top medical centers, Best Regional Hospitals can also be found in theFlorida panhandle, Kentucky'sBluegrass region, theOzarksof Arkansas and scores of other urban and rural areas. ...