Rural Hospitals Are on Life Support

Hospitals may be rural America’s single most important and most endangered institution. Between having to serve some of the sickest and most expensive populations and federal cuts, can small town America save more from closing?

by John Buntin

Full Story: http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-rural-hospitals-on-life-support.html

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