Next health care catastrophe seen coming in mass closings of rural hospitals nationwide
By Jane Bolin, Professor of Health Policy + Management, Deputy Director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center; Associate Dean of Research, College of Nursing; Bree Watzak, Clinical Assistant Professor, Pharmacy; Nancy Dickey, Professor, Executive Director, Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Initiative – Texas A&M University Presidential candidates and other politicians have talked about the rural health crisis in the U.S., but they are not telling rural Americans anything new. Rural Americans know all too well what it feels like to have no hospital and emergency care when they break a leg, go into early labor, or have...
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