Posted on 05/22/2023 9:18:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
There are 646 rural hospitals at risk of closure due to financial issues, comprising around 30 percent of all rural hospitals in the U.S., according to the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform.
The hospitals face losses on patient services as health plans aren't paying enough to cover the cost of care delivery. The losses will likely increase as inflation and workforce shortages persist, according to the report, which was released in April. While rural hospitals are receiving some support through grants, local tax revenues or other profits, they still have low financial reserves and remain at risk.
More than half the states in the U.S. report 25 percent or more of their rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and more than 200 hospitals nationwide are at immediate risk of closing.
Here are the number and percentage of rural hospitals at risk of closing by state from the analysis:
The people can move.
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Let them.see what happens next.
Low birth rate. We should close half of them. But it should be up to local governments if they want to keep their rural hospital open. Either through federal grants or local taxes.
Obamacare
FU, Steve
The article doesn’t say it’s because of low patient volume - it’s more due to
out of control costs.
ERs are full of patients with no way to pay - migrants
OB schedules are full with non paying - migrants
Nurses have left the hospitals for doctors offices, administrative jobs, school systems - you name it.
Imaging techs, lab techs and others are leaving the hospitals to work in doctors
offices. They don’t want to deal with the woke b s in hospitals.
Nationwide shortage of radiologists and anesthesiologists right now.
Medical schools aren’t increasing capacity.
The health care system in this country - the greatest in history - is in big trouble.
Serious shit show incoming.
Hillary Barack and Joe.
Migrants= illegal aliens
Call em whatever you want.
That was insightful.
That is exactly what the New World Order plan wants…… move all us non-elites into crowded cities where it will be easier to control us.
Just convert to a medical REIT.
For lease:
operating rooms 1,2,3,4
nursing wings 1,2
imaging rooms 1,2,3
medical offices of various sizes
“The people can move.”
Or the requirements for running a hospital can be adjusted so they become viable in the more rural areas.
...closer to the 3rd world shit-hole areas that are filled with crime and degeneracy.
Then build them on Indian reservations. No fed intervention. Build it and they will come.
are we assuming all patients had medical plans or do they have medicaid or no insurance at all?
In Texas? Yes. But maybe not in Kansas or Iowa.
This has been going on for decades.
Rural hospitals proliferated during the 50’s, fueled by the Baby Boom. They had little problem attracting qualified nurses, medical techs and docs. By the 1980’s, cracks were starting to appear in the foundations of the rural healthcare system. By the late 1990’s, Congress passed the Critical Access Hospital Act giving small, rural hospitals (less than 150 beds) the financial structure to abandon their certificates of need for their unused bed capacity and reduce the size of their healthcare footprint. It worked for a while, but the inability to attract qualified healthcare workers due to lower wages and diminished quality of life basically drove a stake through the heart of the country hospitals.
Sad, but inevitable.
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