Rural hospitals struggle to maintain operations after COVID funds cease
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Many rural hospitals were at risk of closing before the pandemic, and stayed open with the help of COVID-19 funds.
Robert Pascasio is the CEO of OmniPoint Health Hospital in Anahuac, Texas. He says rural hospitals are struggling to maintain their operations after dealing with higher costs and labor shortages. Joy Addison joined Fox News in 2022 as a multimedia reporter in Houston.
"COVID increased costs for all of us across the board. Labor costs are up, substantially. Supply costs are up, substantially," Pascasio said. "We’re still experiencing shortages. A lot of folks got out of healthcare as a result of COVID."
Now, COVID funds that kept many rural hospitals open during the pandemic have ended, resulting in the closure of 18 rural hospitals in addition to 18 that no longer offer in-patient care since the funding stopped over a year ago.
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