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Rural Hospital ClosuresPink, George HHolmes, G Mark
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...
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...
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, ...
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,...
Henkeet al.advised payers to move away from fee-for-service payments to “provide more stability in cash flow, such as global payments.” The more stable revenue source could help reduce the risk of future rural hospital mergers or closures and ensure rural hospitals can continue to...
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...
the trend in rural hospital closures is expected to continue. 3 virtual health has been identified as one part of a suite of new health care models that could help address rural health needs and narrow the rural-urban health divide. virtual health has been around in some form for decades...