Palo Verde Hospital: A Rural Healthcare Crisis

Could a Rural California Hospital Closure Leave Thousands Without Emergency Care? A financial crisis nearly shuttered Palo Verde Hospital, the only acute-care facility for over a hundred miles, sparking fears of a public health disaster for Blythe's eighteen thousand residents and thousands more, including inmates at a nearby prison. Emergency state funding bought some time, but with a history of lawsuits, cyber-attacks, and low reimbursement rates, is this just the beginning of a wave of rural hospital closures across California?

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