Stand Up for Rural Health Care: Saving Lives, One Hospital at a Time!
Rural hospitals are often the only source for health care in the community.
They provide essential health services, just like larger, urban hospitals do including 24/7 emergency care, laboratory and imaging, surgical services, cardiology, family medicine, and behavioral health care. They may also provide labor and delivery, rehabilitation, long-term care, home health care, and hospice.
But there are significant barriers to receiving health care for rural Pennsylvanians. And rural hospitals are in trouble.
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Key Stats
There are more Pennsylvanians living in rural counties than 19 other states
8 counties in PA have no hospitals
5 rural PA hospitals have closed in the last 4 years
Without rural hospitals, 3.1 million Pennsylvanians would lose access to care