Can a Model Predict Financial Distress Among Rural Hospitals?

Research center:

North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Phone: 919.966.5541

Lead researcher:

Mark Holmes, PhD

Contact:

George H. Pink, PhD, 919.966.5011, gpink@email.unc.edu

Project funded:

September 2014

Project completed:

August 2016

Topics:

Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Hospitals and clinics

This project will extend an existing model of CAH financial distress to other types of rural hospitals. A valid model would be helpful to ORHP and state Offices of rural Health interested in predicting financial distress or closure of rural hospitals.

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