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Tag: Yadkin Valley Regional Hospital

Yadkin Valley Community Hospital in a Google streetview photo dated May, 2013. The facility now has a primary care practice operating on site, but the hospital facilities are not functioning.
Posted inHospitals

Kaiser Study: Rural Hospitals Close for Many Reasons

by Thomas Goldsmith July 22, 2016April 16, 2021

By Thomas Goldsmith Across the United States, 76 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, three of them in North Carolina. A new report by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured attributes rural hospital closings to a broad range of factors. They include, but aren’t limited to, corporate decisions on profitability, lack of community […]

Posted inHospitals, Rural Health

Yadkin County Reaches Settlement with Former Hospital Operator

by Taylor Sisk April 5, 2016August 6, 2017
Signs supporting Pungo Hospital dot the roadsides near Belhaven, a small coastal town. Belhaven's single stop light is visible in the distance in this 2014 photo.
Posted inFeatured, Health Reform, Hospitals, Rural Health

Report Finds Almost 700 Hospitals at Risk of Shutting Down

by Taylor Sisk March 16, 2016August 6, 2017
James McGrath’s hospital-based practice was shut down.
Posted inRural Health

ā€˜Those Days’ Are Over, So What Lies Ahead for a Rural Hospital?

by Editor August 17, 2015April 19, 2021
Signs supporting Pungo Hospital dot the roadsides near Belhaven, a small coastal town. Belhaven's single stop light is visible in the distance in this 2014 photo.
Posted inHospitals, NC Health Briefs, Rural Health, State Health Policy

N.C. Mayor Arrives in D.C. on Quest to Support Rural Hospitals

by Editor June 15, 2015June 16, 2015

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