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72 CFO / FINANCE A State-by-State Breakdown of 77 Rural Hospital Closures By Ayla Ellison O f the 25 states that have seen at least one rural hospital close since 2010, those with the most closures are lo- cated in the South, according to research from the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program. Ten hospitals in Texas have closed since 2010, the most of any state. Tennessee has seen the second-most closures, with eight hospitals closing since 2010. In third place is Georgia with six closures followed by Al- abama, which has seen five hospitals close over the past six years. Listed below are the 77 rural hospitals that have closed since 2010, as tracked by the NCRHRP. 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 other services, including outpatient care, imaging, emergency care, ur- gent 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 (om- asville) Arizona Cochise Regional Hospital (Douglas) Florence (Ariz.) Community Healthcare Hualapai Mountain Medical Center (King- man) California Colusa (Calif.) Regional Medical Center 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 (Glen- wood) North Georgia Medical Center (Ellijay) Stewart-Webster Hospital (Richland) Illinois St. Mary's Hospital (Streator) Kansas Central Kansas Medical Center (Great Bend) Mercy Hospital Independence (Kan.) Kentucky New Horizons Medical Center (Owenton) Nicholas County Hospital (Carlisle) Parkway Regional Hospital (Fulton) Westlake Regional Hospital (Columbia) Maine Parkview Adventist Medical Center (Bruns- wick) Southern Maine Health Care–Sanford Med- ical Center St. Andrews Hospital (Boothbay Harbor) Massachusetts North Adams (Mass.) Regional Hospital Michigan Cheboygan (Mich.) Memorial Hospital Minnesota Albany (Minn.) Area Hospital Lakeside Medical Center (Pine City) Mississippi Kilmichael (Miss.) Hospital Merit Health Natchez (Miss.) – Community Campus Patients' Choice Medical Center of Hum- phreys County (Belzoni) Pioneer Community Hospital of Newton (Miss.) Missouri Parkland Health Center – Weber Road (Farmington) Sac-Osage Hospital (Osceola) Southeast Health Center of Reynolds County (Ellington) Nebraska Tilden (Neb.) Community Hospital Nevada Nye Regional Medical Center (Tonopah) North Carolina Blowing Rock (N.C.) Hospital Franklin Regional Medical Center (Louis- burg) Vidant Pungo Hospital (Belhaven) Yadkin Valley Community Hospital (Yadk- inville) Ohio OhioHealth Doctors Hospital of Nelsonville Physicians Choice Hospital-Fremont (Ohio) Oklahoma Epic Medical Center (Eufaula) Memorial Hospital & Physician Group (Frederick) Muskogee (Okla.) Community Hospital Sayre (Okla.) Memorial 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) Southern Palmetto Hospital (Barnwell) Williamsburg Regional Hospital (Kingstree) South Dakota Holy Infant Hospital (Hoven) Tennessee Gibson General Hospital (Trenton) Haywood Park Community Hospital (Brownsville) Humboldt (Tenn.) General Hospital McNairy Regional Hospital (Selmer) Parkridge West Hospital (Jasper) Pioneer Community Hospital of Scott (Oneida) Starr Regional Medical Center-Etowah (Tenn.) United Regional Medical Center (Manches- ter) Texas Bowie (Texas) Memorial Hospital 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