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How Can Hospitals Be Closing For Lack of Customers?

Are we not in the midst of the 'worst pandemic ever seen in the history of humankind' where every hospital available is so overwhelmed with sick and dying CovID victims they have to set up tents outside the buildings to handle the overload of victims?

What is that you are saying?

Hospitals nationwide are mostly empty, and they cannot afford to pay staff?

Hospitals are NOT overflowing with CovID victims?

What do you mean that hospitals are like ghost towns?

What do you mean that "nobody goes there anymore"?

The news media says bodies are piling up like cords of wood!

CNN - the most trusted name in TV news, says that 400,000 people died from CovID just yesterday, and I know the news would never lie about something as serious as that.

I even checked Snopes, and they said it was true that at least 400,000 people are dying EVERY DAY from CovID!

The crazy person who reported this must be lying about empty hospital closings.

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By Alya Elison of Becker Hospital Review

: More than 500 rural hospitals in the U.S. were at immediate
: risk of closure before the COVID-19 pandemic because of
: financial losses and lack of reserves to maintain
: operations, according to a report from the Center for
: Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.

: Nearly every state had at least one rural hospital at
: immediate risk of closure before the pandemic. In 22
: states, 25 percent or more of rural hospitals were at
: immediate risk, according to the report.

: The hospitals identified as being at immediate risk of closure
: had a cumulative negative total margin over the most recent
: three-year period, and their financial situation has likely
: deteriorated because of the pandemic.

: Across the U.S., more than 800 hospitals - 40 percent of all
: rural hospitals in the country - are either at immediate or
: high risk of closure. The more than 300 hospitals at high
: risk closure either have low financial reserves or high
: dependence on nonpatient service revenues such as local
: taxes or state subsidies, according to the report.

: Here are the number and percentage of rural hospitals at risk
: of closing in each state as of January 2021 based on the
: CHQPR analysis: Alabama
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 30 (63 percent)

: Alaska
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 5 (38 percent)

: Arizona
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 4 (22 percent)

: Arkansas
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 29 (60 percent)

: California
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 16 (31 percent)

: Colorado
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 11 (27 percent)

: Connecticut
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 3 (100 percent)

: Delaware
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 0 (0 percent)

: Florida
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 7 (35 percent)

: Georgia
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 26 (43 percent)

: Hawaii
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 8 (67 percent)

: Idaho
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 7 (25 percent)

: Illinois
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 20 (27 percent)

: Indiana
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 20 (38 percent)

: Iowa
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 40 (44 percent)

: Kansas
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 76 (72 percent)

: Kentucky
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 16 (23 percent)

: Louisiana
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 26 (53 percent)

: Maine
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 10 (40 percent)

: Maryland
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 1 (25 percent)

: Massachusetts
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 2 (40 percent)

: Michigan
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 19 (30 percent)

: Minnesota
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 28 (31 percent)

: Mississippi
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 41 (62 percent)

: Missouri
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 31 (54 percent)

: Montana
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 19 (37 percent)

: Nebraska
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 24 (33 percent)

: Nevada
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 6 (46 percent)

: New Hampshire
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 4 (24 percent)

: New Jersey
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 0 (0 percent)

: New Mexico
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 6 (25 percent)

: New York
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 30 (59 percent)

: North Carolina
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 19 (36 percent)

: North Dakota
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 16 (43 percent)

: Ohio
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 19 (27 percent)

: Oklahoma
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 41 (56 percent)

: Oregon
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 11 (34 percent)

: Pennsylvania
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 18 (42 percent)

: Rhode Island
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 0 (0 percent)

: South Carolina
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 12 (48 percent)

: South Dakota
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 11 (24 percent)

: Tennessee
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 30 (59 percent)

: Texas
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 82 (56 percent)

: Utah
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 3 (14 percent)

: Vermont
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 2 (15 percent)

: Virginia
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 14 (50 percent)

: Washington
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 20 (50 percent)

: West Virginia
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 11 (46 percent)

: Wisconsin
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 16 (22 percent)

: Wyoming
: Rural hospitals at high risk of closing: 7 (30 percent)