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Hospital Closures Pose Challenges to Care
Empty beds in a hospital room.
When 10-bed Nye Regional Medical Center, in west-central Nevada, closed abruptly in 2015, it meant that the residents of the former gold-mining town of Tonopah would have to drive about two hours across a hundred miles of desert roads to get to the nearest hospital.
The hospital’s CEO, Wayne Allen, didn’t sugar-coat it.
“This is a decision that will ultimately jeopardize the health and well-being of our community and surrounding areas,” he said.
Hospital closures over the last decade—most notably in rural areas and in pediatrics, but urban closures as well—have left patients wi...
Source: The Hospitalist - November 1, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Business of Medicine Career Pediatrics PHM22 Source Type: research
UNM Sciences Center gets grant to expand telemedicine service
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center has gotten a $15.1 million, three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to test the expansion of its existing telemedicine network for stroke and brain injury patients.
The project will be in conjunction with a private Albuquerque telemedicine firm, Net Medical Xpress Solutions, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said.
UNM and Net Medical Xpress have a telemedicine network of 11 hospitals and will look…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Hospitals headlines - July 18, 2014 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Dennis Domrzalski Source Type: research
