tennessee 10 / 13 credit (brandon dill | the washington post view as article tennessee state population: 7 million rural hospital closures: 14 next: texas 11 / 13 credit getty images | view as article texas state population: 29 million rural hospital closures: 29 next: 10 states with ...
Importance The increase in rural hospital closures has strained access to inpatient care in rural communities. It is important to understand the association between hospital system affiliation and access to care in these communities to inform policy on this issue. Objective To examine the association ...
has had 20 hospital closures. The remaining six regions, New England, Mid-Atlantic, East North Central, West North Central, Mountain and Pacific, have a combined total of 35 rural hospital closures in the past decade. States with the most closures are Texas, with 17, and Tennessee,...
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...
But before we do that, I think it would be helpful for our listeners to get more of a macro level view of the rural healthcare landscape. I recently read that since 2011 there have been more hospital closures than hospital openings in the U.S., and about two thirds of hospital closures...
— those with fewer than 50,000 residents and at least 50 miles from a major city — the death rates were 66% higher than in their states. Seven of the eight hospital closures in counties where the fatality rate was at least 80% higher than their state’s were in...
Lung conditions such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, which the study is also examining, are also more prevalent in the South. Researchers have multiple theories for the disparity. Hospital closures and phy...
in-patient care, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina. Tennessee has recorded the second-most closures of any state, with 15, and the most closures per capita. Texas has the highest number of rural hospital closures, with 25...
States with the highest percentage of at-risk hospitals include Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Hawaii, Kansas, Mississippi, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, according to the report. People inurban areastend to think of a hospital as one of many health care facilities in the community,...