HealthExec July 26, 2024
Hospitals planning to close facilities or cut services may soon have to notify HHS in enough time for the agency to oversee plans for maintaining patient access to care.
The scenario is on the table thanks to a bill introduced last week in the U.S. Senate by Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin.
Calling the legislation the Hospital Stability and Health Services (HSHS) Act, Baldwin suggests she wrote the bill with rural communities in mind.
Baldwin drafted the bill after Hospital Sisters Health System announced they were closing two hospitals and more than a dozen clinics in western Wisconsin earlier this year.
These closures threaten to deprive communities of ready access to emergency rooms, hospital beds and critical care units, as well...
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