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28 CFO / FINANCE A State-by-State Breakdown of 80 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. irteen 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 and Mississippi, which have each seen five hospitals close over the past six years. Listed below are the 80 rural hospitals that closed between January 2010 and November 2016, as tracked by the NCRHRP. For the pur- poses of its analysis, the NCRHRP defined a hospital closure as the cessation in the provi- sion of inpatient services. As of November, all of the facilities listed below no longer provid- ed inpatient care. However, many of them still offered other services, including outpatient care, imaging, emergency care, urgent care, primary care or skilled nursing and rehabili- tation services. Alabama Chilton Medical Center (Clanton) Elba General Hospital Florala Memorial Hospital Randolph Medical Center (Roanoke) South West Alabama Medical Center (om- asville) Arizona Cochise Regional Hospital (Douglas) Florence Community Healthcare Hualapai Mountain Medical Center (Kingman) California Colusa Regional Medical Center Corcoran District Hospital Kingsburg Medical Center Georgia Calhoun Memorial Hospital (Arlington) Charlton Memorial Hospital (Folkston) Hart County Hospital (Hartwell) Lower Oconee Community Hospital (Glenwood) 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 Kentucky New Horizons Medical Center (Owenton) Nicholas County Hospital (Carlisle) Parkway Regional Hospital (Fulton) Westlake Regional Hospital (Columbia) Maine Parkview Adventist Medical Center (Brunswick) Southern Maine Health Care – Sanford Medical Center St. Andrews Hospital (Boothbay Harbor) Massachusetts North Adams Regional Hospital Michigan Cheboygan Memorial Hospital Minnesota Albany Area Hospital Lakeside Medical Center (Pine City) Mississippi Kilmichael Hospital Merit Health Natchez – Community Campus Patient's Choice Medical Center of Humphreys County (Belzoni) Pioneer Community Hospital of Newton Quitman County Hospital (Marks) Missouri Parkland Health Center – Weber Road (Farmington) Sac-Osage Hospital (Osceola) SoutheastHEALTH Center of Reynolds County (Ellington) Nebraska Tilden Community Hospital Nevada Nye Regional Medical Center (Tonopah) North Carolina Blowing Rock Hospital Vidant Pungo Hospital (Belhaven) Yadkin Valley Community Hospital (Yadkinville) Ohio Doctors Hospital of Nelsonville Physicians Choice Hospital-Fremont Oklahoma Epic Medical Center (Eufaula) Memorial Hospital & Physician Group (Frederick) Muskogee Community Hospital Sayre Memorial Hospital Pennsylvania Mid-Valley Hospital (Peckville) Saint Catherine Medical Center Fountain Springs (Ashland) South Carolina Bamberg 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 General Hospital McNairy Regional Hospital (Selmer) Parkridge West Hospital (Jasper) Pioneer Community Hospital of Scott (Oneida) Starr Regional Medical Center-Etowah United Regional Medical Center (Manchester) Texas Bowie Memorial East Texas Medical Center-Clarksville East Texas Medical Center-Gilmer East Texas Medical Center-Mount Vernon Good Shepherd Medical Center (Linden) Gulf Coast Medical Center (Wharton) Hunt Regional Hospital of Commerce Lake Whitney Medical Center (Whitney) Nix Community General Hospital (Dilley) Renaissance Hospital Terrell Shelby Regional Medical Center (Center) Weimar Medical Center Wise Regional Health System-Bridgeport Virginia Lee Regional Medical Center (Pennington Gap) Wisconsin Franciscan Skemp Medical Center (Arcadia) n