'If we're not able to address the short-term cash needs of rural hospitals, we're going to see hundreds of rural hospitals close before this crisis ends,' the head of the National Rural Health Association warned. 'This is not hyperbole.'
, D-Colo., which in early drafts called for the equivalent of a three-month advance based on hospitals' previous patient numbers, according to Bennet's office.
"Rural hospitals have already been closing their doors at startling rates, and this crisis will only exacerbate that fact," Bennet tells KHN in a written statement."There is an incredible opportunity for rural hospitals to shoulder some of the burdens of caring for patients and helping to meet possible bed shortages.""And yet I hear they're going to bail out the cruise lines? Really?" Missouri's Scotland County Hospital CEO Dr.
"In the truly safety-net areas, we're being called to high duty," he says."And we're running on fumes.", CEO of Candler County Hospital in Metter, Ga., says he's already fallen into a negative cash flow situation in the past week. The number of patients coming to his hospital, which is about 65 miles outside Savannah, for profitable outpatient procedures has dropped by half as people in droves have canceled their surgeries, MRIs and physical therapy.
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