Global Budgets for Rural Hospitals

A re rural hospitals an endangered species? Since 2005, more than one hundred have closed, with about one in four of the roughly two thousand remaining at high risk or mid-high risk for going out of business. 1 A website exists to track their demise (http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/programsprojects/rural-health/rural-hospital-closures/). Bipartisan legislation in the US House of Representatives is known as the Save Rural Hospitals Act, and there is a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #SaveRural.