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A frontier hospital that measures success by technology

The financial struggle of rural hospitals is very real — of the 2,000 rural hospitals in the U.S., 74 have closed since 2010 and nearly 700 more are vulnerable for closure — some filing for bankruptcy protection or announcing mergers with larger institutions in an effort to survive. More than 60 percent of the country’s hospitals are now part of larger, mega-hospital systems, and the trend of "merge or die" continues to rise.

Lost Rivers — a critical access hospital in Arco — is a holdout.

By: Brad Huerta

Full Story: http://idahobusinessreview.com/2016/10/07/a-frontier-hospital-that-measures-success-by-technology/

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