Rural hospitals in the Southeast and Midwest are switching to a 24/7 emergency care model to remain financially afloat.
Rural hospitals that switch to a 24/7 emergency care model must transfer patients who require inpatient care to a larger hospital within 24 hours, which is not always known by those seeking care.As rural hospitals continue to struggle financially, a new type of hospital is slowly taking root, especially in the Southeast.
“We operate on a $6 million budget for the county, so to extend that kind of line of credit was dangerous on our part to some degree," he said. “But ... we felt like we had to try.” Traci Harper, a longtime Ocilla resident, isn’t so sure. About a year ago, she rushed her son to the hospital for emergency care for spinal meningitis.
Though residents expressed concerns at a September town hall about closing inpatient services, the importance of having emergency care outweighed other worries. That lifeline has proven difficult to hold onto for Alliance Healthcare System in Holly Springs, Mississippi, another one of Whitwell’s hospitals and the fourth facility in the country to convert.
“We might have been closed if we hadn’t , so ... something had to be done,” he said. “Do I regret all of the issues that for some reason we’ve incurred that the other have not? I don’t know.”
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