Five-year trend shows urban community hospitals at risk for closure.
Examination of the distributional patterns and frequencies of the closings and resulting bed losses that occurred in 1977-1981 among urban community hospitals shows that these hospitals are more subject to closure than their non-urban counterparts. Small hospitals, investor-owned hospitals, and hospitals located in very large urban areas in the Pacific and Middle Atlantic regions are especially vulnerable.
D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population