Medical Xpress September 24, 2024
Rural hospitals and hospitals that treat patients regardless of their ability to pay have been hampered by federal rules limiting their access to funding for capital projects—making it harder for them to generate revenue and achieve financial stability, according to a new policy paper.
This, in turn, has led to institutionalized racism in hospitals, according to Rosemary Batt, the Alice Cook Professor of Women and Work in the ILR School, who co-authored a report titled “Structural Determinants of Health: Hospitals’ Unequal Capital Investments Drive Health Inequalities,” published in July by the Center for Economic Policy Research.
“A hospital’s ability to raise capital is the direct result of laws, like the Hill-Burton Act of 1946, the 1965 Medicare and Medicaid law,...
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