Studies by KHN, Navigant, and Others Report That Independent and Rural Hospitals Are Closing at Record Rates, Leaving Patients Without Critical Nearby Healthcare Services

Negative financials, low population growth, and excess inpatient capacity cited as reasons communities—especially rural areas—may lose their independent hospitals, including access to nearby clinical laboratory testing and anatomic pathology services Could America’s independent rural hospitals actually disappear altogether? Metrics compiled by multiple healthcare monitoring organizations suggest that, with the increase in mergers and acquisitions of […]
Source: Dark Daily - Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Laboratory News Laboratory Operations Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing acute care Alison Davis PhD American Hospital Association anatomic pathology clinical laboratory Dark Daily dark intelligence group Dark Report David Mos Source Type: news