More than 100 rural hospitals have closed in the US since 2010 and another 430 are at risk of closing, which a new study says could have life-or-death implications for rural communities. Reporting by PhilMcCausland: (1/5)
More than 100 rural hospitals have closed in the United States since 2010 and another 430 are at risk of closing, whichUniversity of Washington researchers examined 92 rural hospital closings in California from 1995 to 2011. They found that while the closings of urban hospitals had no impact on their surrounding communities, rural closings caused their populations — which have limited access to health care and other services — to see mortality rates rise 5.9 percent.
"There’s a golden hour of getting care in that first hour of trauma," Dickey said."If you don't get care in that time, it can have a negative impact on morbidity as well as mortality." Billing envelopes litter the floor of the shuttered Southeast Health Center in Ellington, Missouri on July 19, 2019. The rural hospital closed in March of 2016 and was $17 million in debt."So there is evidence to show that is true," Pink said, referring to to the Colorado study."Anecdotally, I present a lot around the country and have found CEOs of hospitals are of mixed opinion.
"The kinds of things you can do in a small hospital has shrunk down substantially, and we have not taken the time and energy to say, ‘How do we revamp how we deliver health care when so much that we deliver is high-tech care?’” Dickey said.
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