Listen to ‘Tradeoffs’: How the Loss of a Rural Hospital Compounds the Collapse of Care

January 5, 2024

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</p> <p>The share of rural Americans who live in communities without a hospital grows each year. It’s part of an ongoing collapse in rural health care that has persisted for decades and isn’t improving, despite regulatory efforts to shore up small-hospital finances.</p> <p>Since 2010, about 150 rural hospitals have shuttered and hundreds more have slashed services, leaving a growing number of America’s 60 million rural residents in health care deserts.</p> <p>In this 2020 encore episode of the “Tradeoffs” podcast, Dan Gorenstein talks with KFF Health News chief…</p> <p>