State-by-state breakdown of 120 rural hospital closures

Nearly one in five Americans live in rural areas and depend on their local hospital for care. Over the past 10 years, 120 of those hospitals have closed.

Thirty-one states have seen at least one rural hospital shut down since 2010, and the closures are heavily clustered in states that have not expanded Medicaid under the ACA, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

Twenty rural hospitals in Texas have closed since 2010, the most of any state. Tennessee has seen the second-most closures, with 13 rural hospitals shutting down in the past decade. In third place is Oklahoma with eight closures.

Listed below are the 120 rural hospitals that closed between Jan. 1, 2010, and Dec. 31, 2019, as tracked by the Sheps Center. For the purposes of its analysis, the Sheps Center defined a hospital closure as the cessation in the provision of inpatient services.

"We follow the convention of the Office of Inspector General that a closed hospital is 'a facility that stopped providing general, short-term, acute inpatient care," reads a statement on the Sheps Center's website. "We did not consider a hospital closed if it: merged with, or was sold to, another hospital but the physical plant continued to provide inpatient acute care, converted to critical access status, or both closed and reopened during the same calendar year and at the same physical location."

As of Jan. 14, all the facilities listed below had stopped providing inpatient care. However, some of them still offered other services, including outpatient care, emergency care, urgent care or primary care.

Alabama

Chilton Medical Center (Clanton)

Elba General Hospital

Florala Memorial Hospital

Georgiana Medical Center

Randolph Medical Center (Roanoke)

Southwest Alabama Medical Center (Thomasville)

Alaska

Sitka Community Hospital

Arizona

Cochise Regional Hospital (Douglas)

Florence Community Healthcare

Hualapai Mountain Medical Center (Kingman)

Arkansas

De Queen Medical Center

California

Adventist Health Feather River Hospital (Paradise)

Coalinga Regional Medical Center

Kingsburg Medical Center

Corcoran District Hospital

Florida

Campbellton-Graceville Hospital

Regional General Hospital (Williston)

Georgia

Calhoun Memorial Hospital (Arlington)

Charlton Memorial Hospital (Folkston)

Chestatee Regional Hospital (Dahlonega)

Hart County Hospital (Hartwell)

Lower Oconee Community Hospital (Glenwood)

North Georgia Medical Center (Ellijay)

Stewart-Webster Hospital (Richland)

Illinois

St. Mary's Hospital (Streator)

Indiana

Fayette Regional Health System

Kansas

Central Kansas Medical Center (Great Bend)

Horton Community Hospital

Mercy Hospital Fort Scott

Mercy Hospital Independence

Oswego Community Hospital

Kentucky

New Horizons Medical Center (Owenton)

Nicholas County Hospital (Carlisle)

Parkway Regional Hospital (Fulton)

Westlake Regional Hospital (Columbia)

Louisiana

Doctors Hospital at Deer Creek (Leesville)

Maine

Parkview Adventist Medical Center (Brunswick)

Southern Maine Health Care-Sanford Medical Center

St. Andrews Hospital (Boothbay Harbor)

Massachusetts

North Adams Regional Hospital

Michigan

Cheboygan Memorial Hospital

Minnesota

Albany Area Hospital

Albert Lea-Mayo Clinic Health System

Lakeside Medical Center (Pine City)

Mississippi

Kilmichael Hospital

Merit Health Natchez-Community Campus

Patients' Choice Medical Center of Humphreys County (Belzoni)

Pioneer Community Hospital of Newton

Quitman County Hospital (Marks)

Missouri

I-70 Community Hospital (Sweet Springs)

Parkland Health Center-Weber Road (Farmington)

Sac-Osage Hospital (Osceola)

Southeast Health Center of Reynolds County (Ellington)

Southeast Health Center of Ripley County (Doniphan)

Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center (Kennett)

Nebraska

Tilden Community Hospital

Nevada

Nye Regional Medical Center (Tonopah)

New York

Moses Ludington Hospital (Ticonderoga)

Lake Shore Health Care Center

North Carolina

Blowing Rock Hospital

Davie Medical Center-Mocksville

Our Community Hospital (Scotland Neck)

Vidant Pungo Hospital (Belhaven)

Yadkin Valley Community Hospital (Yadkinville)

Novant Health Franklin Medical Center (Louisburg)

Sandhills Regional Medical Center (Hamlet)

Ohio

Doctors Hospital of Nelsonville

Physicians Choice Hospital-Fremont

Oklahoma

Epic Medical Center (Eufaula)

Latimer County General Hospital (Wilburton)

Memorial Hospital & Physician Group (Frederick)

Mercy Hospital El Reno

Muskogee Community Hospital

Pauls Valley General Hospital

Sayre Community Hospital

Haskell County Community Hospital (Stigler)

Pennsylvania

Mid-Valley Hospital (Peckville)

Saint Catherine Medical Center Fountain Springs (Ashland)

Ellwood City Medical Center

South Carolina

Bamberg County Memorial Hospital

Fairfield Memorial Hospital (Winnsboro)

Marlboro Park Hospital (Bennettsville)

Southern Palmetto Hospital (Barnwell)

South Dakota

Holy Infant Hospital (Hoven)

Tennessee

Copper Basin Medical Center (Copperhill)

Cumberland River Hospital (Celina)

Gibson General Hospital (Trenton)

Haywood Park Community Hospital (Brownsville)

Humboldt General Hospital

Jamestown Regional Medical Center

McKenzie Regional Hospital

McNairy Regional Hospital (Selmer)

Parkridge West Hospital (Jasper)

Starr Regional Medical Center-Etowah

Takoma Regional Hospital (Greeneville)

United Regional Medical Center (Manchester)

Riverview Regional Medical Center South (Carthage)

Texas

Wise Regional Health System-Bridgeport

Shelby Regional Medical Center (Center)

Renaissance Hospital Terrell

East Texas Medical Center-Mount Vernon

East Texas Medical Center-Clarksville

East Texas Medical Center-Gilmer

Good Shepherd Medical Center (Linden)

Lake Whitney Medical Center (Whitney)

Hunt Regional Community Hospital of Commerce

Gulf Coast Medical Center (Wharton)

Nix Community General Hospital (Dilley)

Weimar Medical Center

Care Regional Medical Center (Aransas Pass)

East Texas Medical Center-Trinity

Little River Healthcare Cameron Hospital

Little River Healthcare Rockdale Hospital

Stamford Memorial Hospital

Texas General-Van Zandt Regional Medical Center (Grand Saline)

Hamlin Memorial Hospital

Chillicothe Hospital

Virginia

Lee Regional Medical Center (Pennington Gap)

Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick County (Stuart)

Wisconsin

Franciscan Skemp Medical Center (Arcadia)

Access more information on the rural hospitals that have closed since 2010 here.

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