Healthcare IT News January 25, 2022
Alana McGolrick, chief nursing officer at PeriGen and a former labor-and-delivery nurse, discusses the new role of telehealth and remote patient monitoring.
As hospital consolidation continues nationwide, rural areas are beginning to take a new shape – and it is not a pretty picture.
According to a recent study from Health Affairs, newly acquired rural hospitals are eliminating surgical care services and mental health treatment access, despite a sharp rise in depression, suicide and addiction in the hard-hit rural communities.
Even more stunning, these newly acquired hospitals are more likely to eliminate maternity and neonatal care than those that remain independent. Coupled with a worsening nursing shortage, this is a huge problem for rural American families.
Even before the pandemic,...
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