Rural hospitals have high fixed costs, low patient volume and a large portion of patients insured through Medicaid, which typically pays less than private insurers.
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Despite the rising burden of stroke across Africa, there is no continent-wide framework or standardised protocol for stroke management.
The biggest changes will be to the Medicaid program, which currently covers more than 78 million people. And Congress may cut health care spending further.
Drastic cuts to Medicaid and other public health provisions in the new law will mean even less money to rural hospitals, many of which are already at risk of closing.
Research shows that decades of policy choices shaped today’s fragmented health care system – which is precisely why reform is so difficult.
Research shows hospital administrators can better plan for how they’d cope if a disaster or terrorist attack impacts a hospital’s ability to function as normal.
Rural emergency departments can be busier than normal during school holidays. Plus they can be short-staffed. So please, save the ED for true emergencies.
Rural hospital closings have accelerated in recent years, leaving not only sick people but ghost towns in their wake. Does the failure to fix it speak to the ills of the larger health care system?
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Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong
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Professor, Executive Director, Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Initiative, Texas A&M University
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Associate Dean for Research, College of Nursing, and Professor of Health Policy + Management, Deputy Director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center; Associate dean of research, College of Nursing, Texas A&M University
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Clinical assistant professor, pharmacy, Texas A&M University
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Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, Horizon Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the Sydney School of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
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PhD student, Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Macquarie University
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Professor of Health Systems Research and Founding Director, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer of History, Auburn University
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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PhD Student/Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Utah