Prominent health systems like Ascension and Tufts Medicine are falling short of financial targets set out in their borrowing agreements as they muddle through staff shortages and other challenges.
The health care industry is expected to face numerous challenges this year, including staffing shortages and grapples with insurance providers, according to a local hospital official. During Wednesday's hospital board of governors meeting, Mercer Health Chief Financial Officer Jon Dingledine gave a forecast of the health care industry for 2023.
Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital in Gallup is in the process of applying to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to become a Critical Access Hospital. To qualify, RMCH will decrease hospital patient beds from 49 to 25.
Now, this north central Texas community of about 5,000 is partnering with a hospital system in Jacksboro, about 30 miles away, to revive the brown brick building on Greenwood Avenue as a round-the-clock emergency and observation center. Bowie residents who’ve had to go to other towns for emergency care eagerly await its scaled-down reopening.
The state has given WakeMed preliminary approval to build a new hospital in Garner and a new mental health hospital in Knightdale. The state also approved adding beds to both Duke Raleigh and UNC Rex hospitals.