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When the tiny hospital can’t survive: Free-standing EDs with primary care seen as new rural model
When Stewart-Webster Hospital in Richland, Ga., closed its doors early last year, anxiety spread rapidly throughout the rural town of 1,500 residents. The critical-access hospital—one of the town’s largest employers that had been around for more than six decades—could no longer overcome the financial problems that many rural facilities face: high unemployment in the community, high rates of uninsured and underinsured patients, and declining reimbursements from government payers…Read More
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