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20 CFO / FINANCE State-by-state breakdown of 130 rural hospital closures By Ayla Ellison N early 1 in 5 Americans live in rural ar- eas and depend on their local hospital for care. Over the past 10 years, 130 of those hospitals have closed. irty-three states have seen at least one ru- ral hospital shut down since 2010, and the closures are heavily clustered in states that have not expanded Medicaid under the ACA, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Twenty-one rural hospitals in Texas have closed since 2010, the most of any state. Ten- nessee has the second-most closures, with 13 rural hospitals shutting down in the past decade. In third place is Oklahoma with eight closures. Listed below are the 130 rural hospitals that have closed since Jan. 1, 2010, as tracked by the Sheps Center. For the purposes of its analysis, the Sheps Center defined a hospital closure as the cessation in the provision of in- patient services. "We follow the convention of the Office of Inspector General that a closed hospital is 'a facility that stopped providing gener- al, short-term, acute inpatient care,'" read a statement on the Sheps Center's website. "We did not consider a hospital closed if it: merged with, or was sold to, another hospital but the physical plant continued to provide inpatient acute care, converted to critical access status, or both closed and reopened during the same calendar year and at the same physical location." As of June 8, all the facilities listed below had stopped providing inpatient care. However, some of them still offered other services, in- cluding outpatient care, emergency care, ur- gent care or primary care. Alabama SouthWest Alabama Medical Center (omasville) Randolph Medical Center (Roanoke) Chilton Medical Center (Clanton) Florence Memorial Hospital Elba General Hospital Georgiana Medical Center Alaska Sitka Community Hospital Arizona Cochise Regional Hospital (Douglas) Hualapai Mountain Medical Center (King- man) Florence Community Healthcare Arkansas De Queen Medical Center California Kingsburg Medical Center Corcoran District Hospital Adventist Health Feather River (Paradise) Coalinga Regional Medical Center Florida Campbellton-Graceville Hospital Regional General Hospital (Williston) Shands Live Oak Regional Medical Center Shands Starke Regional Medical Center Georgia Hart County Hospital (Harwell) Charlton Memorial Hospital (Folkston) Calhoun Memorial Hospital (Arlington) Stewart-Webster Hospital (Richland) Lower Oconee Community Hospital (Glenwood) North Georgia Medical Center (Ellijay) Illinois St. Mary's Hospital (Streator) Indiana Fayette Regional Health System Kansas Central Kansas Medical Center (Great Bend) Mercy Hospital Independence Mercy Hospital Fort Scott Horton Community Hospital Oswego Community Hospital Sumner Community Hospital (Wellington) Kentucky Nicholas County Hospital (Carlisle) Parkway Regional Hospital (Fulton) New Horizons Medical Center (Owenton) Westlake Regional Hospital (Columbia) Louisiana Doctor's Hospital at Deer Creek (Leesville) Maine St. Andrews Hospital (Boothbay Harbor) Southern Maine Health Care-Sanford Medical Center Parkview Adventist Medical Center (Brunswick) Maryland Edward W. McCready Memorial Hospital (Crisfield) Massachusetts North Adams Regional Hospital Michigan Cheboygan Memorial Hospital Minnesota Lakeside Medical Center Albany Area Hospital Albert Lea-Mayo Clinic Health System Mayo Clinic Health System-Springfield Mississippi Patient's Choice Medical of Humphreys County (Belzoni) Pioneer Community Hospital of Newton Merit Health Natchez-Community Campus Kilmichael Hospital Quitman County Hospital (Marks) Missouri Sac-Osage Hospital (Osceola) Parkland Health Center-Weber Road (Farmington) Southeast Health Center of Reynolds County (Ellington) Southeast Health Center of Ripley County (Doniphan) Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center (Kennett) I-70 Community Hospital (Sweet Springs) Pinnacle Regional Hospital (Boonville) Nebraska Tilden Community Hospital Nevada Nye Regional Medical Center (Tonopah) New York Lake Shore Health Care Center Moses-Ludington Hospital (Ticonderoga) North Carolina Blowing Rock Hospital Vidant Pungo Hospital (Belhaven) Novant Health Franklin Medical Center (Louisburg) Yadkin Valley Community Hospital (Yadkinville) Our Community Hospital (Scotland Neck) Sandhills Regional Medical Center (Hamlet) Davie Medical Center-Mocksville Ohio Physicians Choice Hospital-Fremont Doctors Hospital of Nelsonville Oklahoma Muskogee Community Hospital Epic Medical Center (Eufaula) Memorial Hospital & Physician Group (Frederick) Latimer County General Hospital (Wilburton) Pauls Valley General Hospital Sayre Community Hospital Haskell County Community Hospital (Stigler) Mercy Hospital El Reno