“There’s a number of myths about rural hospitals,” said Harold Miller, MS, president of CEO of the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform, in a virtual seminar held by Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.4“The most problematic of which is the idea that their clos...
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.
Over half of Mississippi's rural hospitals are at risk of closing immediately or in the near future, according to the state's leading public health official. Ad Dr. Daniel Edney, the state health officer, spoke to state senators at a hearing Monday about the financial pressure on Mississippi ...
Rural hospitals are increasingly at risk of closure. Closure reduces the availability of hospital care in rural areas, resulting in a disparity in health between rural and urban citizens, and it has broader economic impacts on rural communities as rural hospitals are often large employers and are ...
Finally, we did not examine the type of the affiliated system (ie, for profit vs nonprofit), which could also be associated with the risk of closure, as found by Halpern et al.36Conclusions In this cohort study of US rural hospitals, multihospital system affiliation was not consistently a ...
This report identifies hospital and environmental characteristics associated with financial distress and a high risk of closure; assesses the impact of rural hospital closures on access to care, health care costs, and local economies; and reviews public policy initiatives that assist rural hospitals. ...
Since 2010, 99 rural hospitals like the one in Tonopah have closed; that's almost one a month. "Basically about half of rural hospitals are losing money every year," said Mark Holmes, a professor of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina, who has been studying th...
GAO also observed that even prior to COVID-19, many rural hospitals were in financial distress in the years leading up to their closure. Rural hospital closures can have multiple negative impacts on surrounding communities. Individuals have to travel further for care, and an influx of ...
According to that, the aim of our research is to assess and compare the financial conditions of rural and urban hospitals in order to examine whether rural hospitals are at higher risk of financial distress. We take into account the fact that the consequences of a rural hospital’s closure ...
Each of these may be at risk for falling below what the hospital administrators or obstetric unit leaders feel is a threshold for having the requisite experience and resources to provide safe, high-quality inpatient care for labor and delivery. Yet, many of these hospitals keep their obstetric ...