Mississippi Free PressJan 21, 2023

In November 2022, Mississippi State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney warned lawmakers that, out of the total number of rural hospitals in the state, 38 were at risk of collapse.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30415/mississippi-hospital-crisis-proposals-include-80-million-in-aid-no-medicaid-expansion

Proposals to Help Mississippi Hospitals Include $80 Million Grants

Senate Bill 2372 would establish the Mississippi Hospital Sustainability Grant Program, a short-term boost for financially strained state hospitals.

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A decade or so ago, I lived in a rural area of Tennessee where three rural hospitals collapsed and closed

The burden this puts on poor/middle class residents of the area. Being airlifted for cardiac, traffic, trauma cases that could've been triaged &many times treated at the local hospital went up, along with the expense to patients, Medicaid, insurers and Medicare

All the health care services that closed around the hospitals. Labs, radiology, etc

Cheaper to save them.

Jan 21, 2023 at 9:14pmWeb