title: Financially fragile rural hospitals: mergers and closures.
abstract: Rural hospitals serve as major sources of health care and employment for their communities, but recently they have been under increased financial stress. What are the causes of this stress, and how have hospitals and their communities responded?
authors.affiliation: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Department of Health Policy and Management, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. mark_holmes@unc.edu.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Holmes
mesh_terms: D006271:Health Facility Closure / Q000191:economics*; D006273:Health Facility Merger / Q000191:economics*; D006780:Hospitals, Rural / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina