Reports Released on Trends and Geographic Variation of Hospitals at Risk of Financial Distress

This week, the Rural Health Research Gateway released three policy briefs with the most up-to-date data on factors contributing to rural hospital closures.  The producer of these briefs, the North Carolina Rural Health Research Center, keeps track of rural hospital closures and counts 104 since January 2010.  The reports can be accessed at https://www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/281.