Beckers Healthcare: Rural Hospitals in Crisis

 

Alabama
Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 30 (63 percent).

At immediate risk of closing: 27 (56 percent)

More than 500 rural hospitals in the U.S. were at immediate risk of closure before the COVID-19 pandemic because of financial losses and lack of reserves to maintain operations. The hospitals identified as being at immediate risk of closure had a cumulative negative total margin over the most recent three-year period, and their financial situation has likely deteriorated because of the pandemic. 

The more than 300 hospitals at high risk closure either have low financial reserves or high dependence on nonpatient service revenues such as local taxes or state subsidies, according to the report.

 

See the full national list HERE.

Source: Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform (www.CHQPR.org)