Since 2013, 70 rural hospitals have closed in the United States further exacerbating barriers to health care access in rural areas.#The objective of this study is to identify the impact of rural hospital closures on total medical spending and utilization among the commercially insured rural ...
This week’s graphic illustrates the challenging operating environment many rural hospitals find themselves in.In 2024, there were5rural hospital closures.This is a decrease from 2023 when there were 8 closures, but an increase from the pandemic years when Covid aidbuoyedhospitals nationwide. However...
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Shayann Ramedani, from Penn State University College of Medicine in Hershey, and colleagues assessed how 53 discrete rural hospital closures impacted institutions in their regional proximity. Closures from 2005 to 2016 were identified, and then surrounding hospitals within a 30-mile radius of each cl...
. In the United States (U.S.), rural hospital closures have resulted in decreased healthcare access and remain a persistent threat to 20% of the U.S. population who reside in a rural area (The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine, 2018). Decreased rural healthcare access can...
by Bob Shepard,University of Alabama at Birmingham Rural hospital closures are centered in the Southern and Southeastern areas of the United States. Credit: University of Alabama at Birmingham For many rural Americans, especially those in the South or Southeastern areas of the country, it is taking...
Nearly every state has a rural hospital at risk, according to the CHQPR report. In almost half the states, 25% or more of rural hospitals are at risk of closing. In 10 states, 40% or more are at risk. States with the highest percentage of at-risk hospitals include Alabama, Arkansas,...
The closures highlight financial challenges that rural hospitals face amid workforce shortages, rising costs, and leveling reimbursement. What would happen if you had an accident, and the nearest emergency hospital was more than 30 minutes away? What would you do if you arrived at the hospital, ...
There’s perhaps no state in the nation making a better case for Medicare for All than Tennessee. Tennessee leads the nation in rural hospital closures and in the rate of medical bankruptcies. There are now 22 Tennessee counties without an emergency room. ...
Outside the South, state legislatures in Colorado, Nevada, West Virginia, and elsewhere have made recent investments in rural health, in addition to expanding Medicaid eligibility. Some of this spending has been prompted by a wave of rural hospital closures — more than 100 since 2010, according...