About a third of rural hospitals are at risk. Closure. In my home state of California, we've seen many rural hospitals close and we've seen others that closed, struggled to reopen. The hospital, for example, in Madera, California, closed about a year or two ago and struggled to reopen. And when it did reopen, it reopened without the labor and delivery unit. And this too is a common phenomenon. (03:45–03:52)
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