Giving Compass' Take:
- Rural hospitals need more funding to take care of their patient needs in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- How can rural donors help hospitals navigate community health needs?
- Read about the consequences of rural hospitals closing in the U.S.
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Three hospitals that serve many rural patients "say they are missing out on millions in federal pandemic relief money because the facilities are so new they lack full financial statements from before the crisis to prove how much it cost them," Jay Reeves of The Associated Press reports. The hospitals are Thomasville Regional Medical Center, "offering state-of-the-art medicine that was previously unavailable in a poor, isolated part of Alabama;" Rock Regional Hospital southeast of Wichita; and Three Crosses Hospital in Las Cruces, New Mexico.