Oswego Community Hospital shut its doors Feb. 14, leaving its 65 employees without a job and a community of 1,700 without an emergency room. That same day, two more rural hospitals went down — one in Sweet Springs (Missouri) and another in Plymouth, North Carolina.
On a rainy Tuesday evening, dark clouds hang over St. Mark's Medical Center in La Grange, but it's been gloomy for years at the facility. Over the past six years, 21 rural hospitals have closed in Texas, more than any other state during that time period.
Rhode Island's hospital industry was thrown into fresh turmoil Tuesday as Democratic Gov. Gina Raimondo ordered a new round of merger talks between Lifespan and Care New England, leading Partners HealthCare to withdraw its application to take over CNE.
CVS Pharmacy President Kevin Hourican said CVS will “closely evaluate” its options for 500 leases every year. Hourican told CNBC he does not expect “meaningful” store closures. CVS in May said it would close 46 underperforming stores.
A crop of health insurance startups — Oscar Health, Devoted Health, Bright Health, and Clover Health — have raised a combined $1.3 billion in the last year to use technology to build new kinds of health-insurance plans.
Many Americans assume that if they have a good job, they'll have a good health care plan. And if they have insurance, they assume that they are immune from the health care debate. In reality, many of us are just one major illness away from financial devastation. I know, I've been there.