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One by one, COVID-19 outbreaks popped up in April and May at meatpacking plants across the country, fanning fears that the infectious coronavirus could…
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Nine months ago, things were looking bleak for Hillsboro Community Hospital, a 15-bed facility in central Kansas about 50 miles north of Wichita. The…
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When the hospital closed in rural Ellington, Missouri, a town of about 1,000, the community lost its only emergency room, too. That was 2016. That same…
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$1.25 million.That’s the size of the bill that could have shuttered the only public hospital in rural Pemiscot County, Missouri in August 2013.$750,000…
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Economic forces are squeezing the city of Lakewood, just outside Cleveland, forcing the closure of one hospital even as another is built in a more affluent suburb.
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Mortality rates for Medicare patients don't rise in communities after their hospitals shut down, say Harvard researchers who analyzed 195 closures across the country.