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Mashup Score: 4
Rural hospitals hope that the rural emergency hospital designation will help them stop the service cuts they’ve made in recent years to stay open. But will it come soon enough?
Source: Modern HealthcareCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 5When private equity comes for rural hospitals - 2 year(s) ago
The new corporate owners of two rural hospitals in Missouri stopped paying bills and government inspectors found it put patients at risk. After taking millions in federal COVID relief and big administrative fees — it locked the doors.
Source: Modern HealthcareCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 4Readmissions and rural hospitals - 2 year(s) ago
A Modern Healthcare analysis of 285 rural hospitals* found that total readmission reduction penalties decreased in 2021 compared with 2019. Total Medicare revenue also fell, but at a slower rate than penalties. *Hospitals with results available for 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Source: Modern HealthcareCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Readmissions and rural hospitals - 2 year(s) ago
A Modern Healthcare analysis of 285 rural hospitals* found that total readmission reduction penalties decreased in 2021 compared with 2019. Total Medicare revenue also fell, but at a slower rate than penalties. *Hospitals with results available for 2019, 2020 and 2021.
Source: Modern HealthcareCategories: General Medicine News, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Designing Quality Programs for Rural Hospitals - 3 year(s) ago
*Corresponding Author: Aaron L Schwartz, MD, PhD; Email: Aaron.Schwartz@pennmedicine.upenn.edu;
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Mashup Score: 1Prognosis for Rural Hospitals Worsens With Pandemic - 4 year(s) ago
Rural hospitals were already struggling before the coronavirus emerged. Now, the loss of revenue from patients who are afraid to come to the emergency room, postponing doctor’s appointments and del…
Source: Kaiser Health NewsCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Rural hospitals are struggling to stay in business. What can we learn from these closures? - 4 year(s) ago
Financial pressures, limited resources, and changing regulations contribute to bottom-line risk and the alarming result is often rural hospital failure and closure. In this new series from Dr. Robert Budman, we explore what’s behind this and, more importantly, what rural and critical access hospitals can do to keep the doors open.
Source: Healthcare IT NewsCategories: Future of MedicineTweet
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Mashup Score: 4A quarter of rural hospitals are at risk of closing - 4 year(s) ago
More than 350 rural hospitals across 40 states are vulnerable, particularly those in the South.
Source: Modern HealthcareCategories: General Medicine NewsTweet
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Mashup Score: 11
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber appeared on WOSU’s “All Sides with Ann Fisher” to talk about the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on rural hospitals.
Source: Kaiser Health NewsCategories: General Medicine NewsTweet
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Mashup Score: 1
There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years. Rural U.S. hospitals are in poor fiscal health. “The accelerated rate at which rural hospitals are…
Source: HealthPopuli.comCategories: Healthcare ProfessionalsTweet-
Ill health of #ruralhospitals in 4 charts https://t.co/Lk6IyYFHup @ChartisRural research re #ruralhealth finds growing vulnerability for #hospital closures in US. 2019 saw most closures in past 10+ yrs greatest in south & Plains, < likely in #Medicaid expansion states #SDoH #ACA https://t.co/hsSd2SiUz7
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#Tunein to #BeyondtheByline's latest episode: #Ruralhospitals hope that the #ruralemergencyhospital designation will help them stop the service cuts they've made in recent years to stay open. But will it come soon enough? h/t @alex_kacik & @mayagoldman_. https://t.co/pHHxinzjqR