Dozens of small communities are grappling with what to do with hospitals that have closed. Sheps Center researchers have found that while a closure negatively affects thelocal economy, those effects can be softened if the building is converted to another type of health care facility. In Jellico, ...
Because its data runs only through 2022, the study does not account for the additional challenges that hospitals have faced since the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade that year and led many states to restrict abortion. States with abortion bans have experienced a sharp...
There are some nursing home locations, Abrams said, in which they can “fully free up an entire building to be used as an alternate site” in a way that would have “very little impact to current residents.” The Buckeye State had also identified closed hospitals in at least two r...
Zhang Boli, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said the closure of all the temporary hospitals in Wuhan suggests that these hospitals have finished their historic tasks in the battle against the coronavirus. The 16 temporary hospitals in Wuhan have received a total of 13,000 ...
Approximately 6% of rural hospitals that were open in 2007 have now closed. Affiliations and financial distress have increased substantially, whereas market shares have declined. Downsizing was observed across the board in terms of decreases in number of beds and total volume of inpatient stays. ...
Hospital services in the 21st Century have become significantly more complex since the early years of the NHS. The NHS currently has thirteen hospitals in the county (not including those that were formerly in Hertfordshire which now lie within Greater London – such as in Barnet). There have be...
Research by the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program shows that 170 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, and that 2019 was the worst year since then, with 19 rural hospital closures across the country and three in Tennessee alone. The numbers underscore the fact that during the pandem...
Several studies on environmental noise measurements in hospitals that have been carried out around the world (Busch-Vishniac et al. 2005; Fortes-Garrido et al. 2014; Zannin and Ferraz 2016; Montes-González et al. 2019) have revealed noise levels exceeding those recommended for a healthy environm...
The temporary hospitals have almost achieved their initial goals to "accept all patients who need to be admitted to hospitals and treat all those who need to be treated" while severing sources of infection. It is an innovative and effective move that will provide guidance for future such situati...