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Billions in federal funds may make rural hospitals look more stable than they really are

By Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven Between the start of the pandemic and February 2021, rural hospitals nationwide received nearly $15 billion in federal relief dollars, according to researchers at UNC’s Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.  But while the money helped slow the pace of rural hospital closures and enabled these facilities to care for […]