Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum
01/12/24 at 04:00 AM
Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum
Fortune, by Markian Hawryluk and KFF Health News; 1/11/24
Kevin Stansbury, the CEO of Lincoln Community Hospital in the 800-person town of Hugo, Colorado, is facing a classic Catch-22: He could boost his rural hospital’s revenues by offering hip replacements and shoulder surgeries, but the 64-year-old hospital needs more money to be able to expand its operating room to do those procedures.