Characteristics of Rural Hospitals at High Risk of Financial Distress

About this project

The project updates the Financial Distress Index Model (FDI) with current hospital and market data and evaluates changes in risk status and geographic distribution over time.

Research center: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center

Lead researcher: George H. Pink, PhD

Project funded: September 2016

Project completed: December 2017

We will conduct an in-depth analysis of high-risk hospitals including identifying distance to other hospitals, community demographic/SES information, health outcomes, and workforce factors to test their ability to predict high-risk status.

Publications

To What Extent Do Community Characteristics Explain Differences in Closure Among Financially Distressed Rural Hospitals?
North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Date: 11/2016
This study examined the differences between rural hospitals at high risk of financial distress that stayed open and those that closed.