An Updated Model of Rural Hospital Financial Distress
Date:
Time:
10:00 am Pacific,
11:00 am Mountain,
12:00 pm Central,
1:00 pm Eastern
Duration: approximately
minutes
This webinar will provide an overview of new research by the North Carolina Rural Health Research Program on the topic of rural hospital financial distress. The aim of this research was to create an updated Financial Distress Index model that recognizes recent changes in the operating environment and uses financial performance, government reimbursement, organizational traits, and market characteristics to predict the risk of rural hospital financial distress two years hence. Rural hospital profitability continues to be a challenge; having a model that can accurately predict financial distress and closure helps programs and policymakers better target resources to prevent closure or convert to other models of care.
Registration is free and required. Attendance of the live webinar is limited to 500 persons. If you are unable to attend, you will be able to access the recording, archived on the Gateway website.
Registration
Presenter
Tyler Malone,
PhD
Dr. Tyler Malone is a Principal Investigator and
Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina's
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. Dr.
Malone specializes in methods from econometrics and
biostatistics to analyze the public health of rural
communities. His research with the North Carolina Rural
Health Research Program often uses large administrative
datasets to explore questions related to hospital
financial distress and rural patient care-seeking
behavior.