Telehealth May Be Rural Healthcare’s Lifeline
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Imag credit: Getty. Article by Corey Scurlock. Forbes – December 28, 2022.
As a new year dawns, it seems like a stock-taking time in U.S. healthcare. Skyrocketing costs, underwater margins, a depleted workforce and sicker patients have most hospitals and systems thinking existential thoughts about 2023, none more so than rural facilities. According to a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, 116 rural hospitals across 31 states closed between 2010 and 2019. […]