Rural Hospitals Face Financial, Workforce Issues in Health Reform, AHA Says

Rural hospitals face challenges involving limited finances and workforce under the implementation of the healthcare reform law, according to a new AHA Trendwatch report.

These hospitals provide high-quality care while tackling the challenges due of their location, small size, limited workforce and constrained financial resources, the report noted.

"Rural hospitals are a vital yet vulnerable component of the American healthcare system," the report said. "Additional accommodations must be made so that rural hospitals can benefit [from the health reform law]." The report added: "For those provisions to meet the unique needs of rural America, rural hospitals must remain a focus of lawmakers."

Read the AHA Trendwatch report on rural hospitals (pdf).

Read more coverage of challenges that rural hospitals face:

- Bill to Overturn Ban on Physician Employment at Rural Hospitals Moves to Texas Senate

- Proposed Texas Medicaid Cuts Threaten Rural Hospitals

- Four Maine Hospitals Chosen for Medicare Demonstration

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