Rural hospitals caught in aging-facility dilemma

Rural hospitals caught in aging-facility dilemma 
Lexington Herald Leader, by Markian Hawryluk; 2/6/24
... Rural hospital closures dropped during the pandemic, from a record-high 18 in 2020 to eight in 2021 and 2022 combined, according to the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, as emergency relief funds kept them open. But that life support has ended.