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RURAL REPORT - AHA
RURAL REPORTC hallenges Facing RURAL Communities and the Roadmap to Ensure Local Access to High-quality, Affordable Care2 2019 American Hospital Association | Facing RURAL Communities and the Roadmap to Ensure Local Access to High-quality, Affordable CareNearly 20 percent of Americans live in RURAL areas and depend on their hospitals as important and often only sources of care in their ,2 RURAL hospitals provide access to care close to home and improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities they serve. The availability of local, timely access to care saves lives and reduces the added expense, lost work hours and inconvenience of traveling to facilities farther away.
more than once.5 While some hospitals are continuing to thrive, others find that the cumulative burden of persistent, recent and emerging challenges threaten their ability to maintain access to services. In fact, the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program reports that as of December 2018, 95 rural hospitals have closed since 2010 (Figure 1).
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