… elevated risk of closure for hospitals that provide care to underinsured and … similar results
to the main analysis (Table 3). In the adjusted model, the change in operating margin between …

… hospitals remain open without closures or mergers, we report how the financial health of
these hospitals changed over … hospital profitability based on operating margin and cash flow …

… ’ uncompensated care, increases in operating margins, and reductions in rural and …
changes in full hospital closure and obstetric unit closure in Medicaid expansion states (treatment …

… states, 22 and closures may be reflective of previous quality, we … and uncompensated care
and operating margins among SNHs… limited our ability to detect changes in quality. Safety-net …

… Given recent changes in hospital funding, we wondered whether policymakers could have
… margin, and debt to net asset ratio for Muhlenberg Hospital, a minority serving and indigent …

… that may protect against uncompensated care and improve revenue and margins. … , especially
for assessing changes over time and assessing a wide range of hospital services, as in the …

… risk of maintaining solvency due to delayed and deferred care atop already tight margins. …
years after the hospitals’ closure was used to show the change. Other variables included were …

… level of and the change in the median overall margin and the … associations ( p < 0.01 ) with
higher hospital overall margin … closure than the continuously operating rural hospitals in our …

… that rural hospital closures may cause changes in utility that do not occur through changes
in … In this scenario, hospitals on the margin of staying open or closing anticipate poor future …

… -2000s, in parallel with the accelerating number of closures. … improvement in hospital
operating margins after system … assess changes in inpatient quality of care for rural hospitals …