Rural hospitals have long struggled financially and the situation is getting worse. In the mid-1940s, Congress provided funding to
build hospitals in rural areas, leading to a rise in their numbers, especially in the South. By the 1980s and 1990s, those hospitals began closing, partly a result of Medicare spending.
Sidecar Health investigated rural hospital closures in Florida using data from the University of North Carolina Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
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With the advent of Advantage Plans, what are you going to do if your hosp closes.