Twenty years ago, it was hospitals in the city that were closing, too. The "health care system" rather than hospitals took over healthcare promising to reduce health care costs. The only thing it did was to shrink the costs to CORPORATIONS and remove services to Americans.
March 20, 2019
By Avla Ellison
Of the 27 states (click here) that have seen at least one rural hospital close since 2010, those with the most closures are located in the South, according to research from the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program.
March 20, 2019
By Avla Ellison
Of the 27 states (click here) that have seen at least one rural hospital close since 2010, those with the most closures are located in the South, according to research from the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program.
Seventeen hospitals in Texas have closed since 2010, the most of any state. Tennessee has seen the second-most closures, with 10 hospitals closing since 2010. In third place is Georgia with seven closures.
Listed below are the 102 rural hospitals that closed between Jan. 1, 2010, and March 19, 2019, as tracked by the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. For the purposes of its analysis, the NC RHRP defined a hospital closure as the cessation in the provision of inpatient services.
"We follow the convention of the Office of Inspector General that a closed hospital is 'a facility that stopped providing general, short-term, acute inpatient care," reads a statement on the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program's website. "We did not consider a hospital closed if it: merged with, or was sold to, another hospital but the physical plant continued to provide inpatient acute care, converted to critical access status, or both closed and reopened during the same calendar year and at the same physical location."
As of March 19, all the facilities listed below had stopped providing inpatient care. However, some of them still offered other services, including outpatient care, emergency care, urgent care or primary care....
We have been here before, but, not because capitalism took over healthcare for profit, but, because Americans needed health care in their communities. We solved the problem then, we can do it again. We need to rebuild hospitals.
When I was a kid, the Rescue Squad was a group of volunteers that were well trained and saved lives. They ran fundraising campaigns when most of the people gainfully employed were union members and had the money to provide donations to their community RESCUE SQUAD in state of the art ambulances. They took donations, they didn't send bills.
They were well-respected members of the community. The people worked 40 hour per week jobs with free time on their hands to live a life that was fulfilling. They were a force in their communities and cared for the health of their community because it was there to be done. No one was a stranger.
In 1946, (click here) Congress passed a law that gave hospitals, nursing homes and other health facilities grants and loans for construction and modernization. In return, they agreed to provide a reasonable volume of services to people unable to pay and to make their services available to all persons residing in the facility’s area.
We have been here before, but, not because capitalism took over healthcare for profit, but, because Americans needed health care in their communities. We solved the problem then, we can do it again. We need to rebuild hospitals.
When I was a kid, the Rescue Squad was a group of volunteers that were well trained and saved lives. They ran fundraising campaigns when most of the people gainfully employed were union members and had the money to provide donations to their community RESCUE SQUAD in state of the art ambulances. They took donations, they didn't send bills.
They were well-respected members of the community. The people worked 40 hour per week jobs with free time on their hands to live a life that was fulfilling. They were a force in their communities and cared for the health of their community because it was there to be done. No one was a stranger.
In 1946, (click here) Congress passed a law that gave hospitals, nursing homes and other health facilities grants and loans for construction and modernization. In return, they agreed to provide a reasonable volume of services to people unable to pay and to make their services available to all persons residing in the facility’s area.
The program stopped providing funds in 1997, but about 140 health care facilities nationwide are still obligated to provide free or reduced-cost care.
Since 1980, more than $6 billion in uncompensated services have been provided to eligible patients through Hill-Burton....
