{"id":26859,"date":"2025-05-20T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/hundreds-of-rural-hospitals-are-at-risk-of-closing-threatening-critical-care\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:50:28","slug":"hundreds-of-rural-hospitals-are-at-risk-of-closing-threatening-critical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/hundreds-of-rural-hospitals-are-at-risk-of-closing-threatening-critical-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Hundreds of hospitals in rural parts of the United States are in danger of closing because they can no longer afford to stay open, according to a new report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. The main reason: Insurance companies pay them much less than their big city counterparts for the same services.<\/p>\n<p>In Trinity, Texas, about 90 miles north of Houston, Midcoast Medical Center recently had to close its doors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has a huge impact on the community. We will lose lives. Four hundred people a month come here,&#8221; Marjory Pulvino, who runs the hospital&#8217;s board, told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>In the East Texas Piney Woods, Midcoast was more than a building. It was a lifeline where babies were born and where the heart of Cathy Courtney&#8217;s 90-year-old husband was restarted, saving his life.<\/p>\n<p>Courtney said she and her husband had used the facility &#8220;about six times in the last 14 months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Midcoast officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates from elderly patients&#8217; Medicare and Medicaid coverage, which made up most of the hospital&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals in urban areas, meanwhile, get significantly more reimbursement from their patients who have private insurance, which tends to pay more.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans&#8217; proposed cuts to Medicaid could leave more than 8.5 million people uninsured, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and force even more rural hospitals to close.<\/p>\n<p>The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform&#8217;s report<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>found that 742 rural hospitals are at risk of closing, with over 300 of those being classified as being at &#8220;immediate risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Courtney&#8217;s husband is now home and doing well, but the 87-year-old said she worries that if there&#8217;s another emergency, they won&#8217;t make it to the nearest hospital now that Midcoast is closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Midcoast was a 10-minute drive, the closest medical center is now more than half an hour away, Courtney said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/janet-shamlian\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Janet  Shamlian<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Janet Shamlian is a CBS News correspondent based in Houston, Texas. 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