Most Rural Towns Lost Physicians After Their Hospitals Closed

L. Gary Hart, Michael J. Pirani and Roger A. Rosenblatt

Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, 1994, vol. 10, issue 01

Abstract: Between 1980 and 1988, 132 rural hospitals closed, and left their towns with no general hospital. Most of those towns also lost physicians, and 19 were left with no physicians 2 years after closure. The smaller, more remote towns had few physicians to begin with and were more likely than larger towns to lose physicians along with their hospitals.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.311064

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