CHQPR July 23, 2023
Over the next several years, millions of Americans could lose access to essential healthcare services, including primary care, emergency care, maternity care, laboratory testing, inpatient care, and rehabilitation. It isn’t because they’ll lose health insurance. It’s because there will be nowhere in their community they can use their insurance.
The people who are at risk live in the more than 600 small rural communities where the local hospital could be forced to close. The latest hospital financial data show that in over 300 of these communities, the rural hospital is at immediate risk of closure, i.e., it could be forced to shut down in less than 3 years. CHQPR’s updated report on Rural Hospitals at Risk of Closing shows there...
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