New full-service hospitals with inpatient beds are rare in rural America, where declining population has spurred decades of downsizing and closures.
There's a new morning ritual in Pinedale, Wyoming , a town of about 2,000 nestled against the Wind River Mountains.
There is no official tally of new hospitals being built in rural America, but industry experts such as Boley said they're rare. Typically, health-related construction projects in rural areas are for smaller urgent care centers or stand-alone emergency facilities or are replacements for old hospitals.
The work, Breitlow said, is part of health care"systems figuring out how to remain robust and viable."to build a new 50-bed hospital across the state line in Kansas. Paula Baker, Freeman's president and chief executive, said the system is building for patients in the southeastern corner of the state who travel 45 minutes or more to its bigger Joplin facilities for care.
And while private corporate money can drive construction, many rural hospital projects tap government programs, especially those supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Topchik said. That, he said,"surprises a lot of people."
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