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15 FINANCE FINANCE A State-by-State Breakdown of 57 Rural Hospital Closures By Ayla Ellison F iy-seven rural hospitals have closed since 2010 — and many more may be headed down the same path. Rural hospitals are facing a myriad of financial challenges, and those in states that have not expanded Medicaid are feeling the most financial pressure. In expansion states, 8.5 percent of rural hospitals are vulnerable to closure, and that number nearly doubled in nonexpansion states, where 16.5 percent of rural hospitals are vulnerable to closure, according to a report from iVantage Health Analytics. Here are the 24 states that have closed one or more rural hospitals since 2010, according to the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. For the purposes of its analysis, the NCRHRP defined a hospital closure as the cessation in the provision of inpatient services. Although all of the facilities listed below no longer provide inpatient care, many of them still offer services, including outpatient care, imaging, emergency care, urgent care, primary care or skilled nursing and rehabilitation services. Alabama Chilton Medical Center (Clanton) Elba (Ala.) General Hospital Florala (Ala.) Memorial Hospital Randolph Medical Center (Roanoke) Southwest Alabama Medical Center (omasville) Arizona Cochise Regional Hospital (Douglas) Florence (Ariz.) Community Healthcare Hualapai Mountain Medical Center (Kingman) California Corcoran (Calif.) District Hospital Kingsburg (Calif.) Medical Center Georgia Calhoun Memorial Hospital (Arlington) Charlton Memorial Hospital (Folkston) Hart County Hospital (Hartwell) Lower Oconee Community Hospital (Glenwood) Stewart-Webster Hospital (Richland) Kansas Central Kansas Medical Center (Great Bend) Kentucky Nicholas County Hospital (Carlisle) Parkway Regional Hospital (Fulton) Maine Parkview Adventist Medical Center (Brunswick) St. Andrews Hospital (Boothbay Harbor) Massachusetts North Adams (Mass.) Regional Hospital Michigan Cheboygan (Mich.) Memorial Hospital Minnesota Lakeside Medical Center (Pine City) Mississippi Kilmichael (Miss.) Hospital Patient's Choice Medical Center of Humphreys County (Belzoni) Missouri Sac-Osage Hospital (Osceola) Nebraska Tilden (Neb.) Community Hospital Nevada Nye Regional Medical Center (Tonopah) North Carolina Blowing Rock (N.C.) Hospital Vidant Pungo Hospital (Belhaven) Yadkin Valley Community Hospital (Yadkinville) Ohio Doctors Hospital of Nelsonville (Ohio) Physicians Choice Hospital-Fremont (Ohio) Oklahoma Muskogee (Okla.) Community Hospital Pennsylvania Mid-Valley Hospital (Peckville) Saint Catherine Medical Center Fountain Springs (Ashland) South Carolina Bamberg (S.C.) County Memorial Hospital Marlboro Park Hospital (Bennettsville) South Dakota Holy Infant Hospital (Hoven) Tennessee Gibson General Hospital (Trenton) Haywood Park Community Hospital (Brownsville) Humboldt (Tenn.) General Hospital Parkridge West Hospital (Jasper) Starr Regional Medical Center- Etowah (Tenn.) Texas Colorado-Fayette Medical Center (Weimar) Cozby-Germany Hospital (Grand Saline) East Texas Medical Center-Clarksville East Texas Medical Center-Gilmer East Texas Medical Center-Mount Vernon Good Shepherd Medical Center - Linden Hunt Regional Hospital of Commerce (Texas) Lake Whitney Medical Center (Whitney) Renaissance Hospital Terrell (Texas) Shelby Regional Medical Center (Center) Wise Regional Health System- Bridgeport (Texas) Virginia Lee Regional Medical Center (Pennington Gap) Wisconsin Franciscan Skemp Medical Center (Arcadia) n