New Report Finds Rural US Hospitals Struggling to Stay Open and Cutting Services

Small-town hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility have fared better than those in states that didn’t.

In a little more than two years as CEO of a small hospital in Wyoming, Dave Ryerse has witnessed firsthand the worsening financial problems eroding rural hospitals nationwide. In 2022, Ryerse’s South Lincoln Medical Center was forced to shutter its operating room because it didn’t have the staff to run it 24 hours a day. Soon after, the obstetrics unit closed. Ryerse said the publicly owned...

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