{"id":12367,"date":"2019-01-08T08:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12367"},"modified":"2019-01-08T08:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T13:02:20","slug":"how-helping-patients-get-good-care-at-home-helps-rural-hospitals-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12367","title":{"rendered":"How Helping Patients Get Good Care At Home Helps Rural Hospitals Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio, for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Rural hospitals close when they don\u2019t have enough paying patients to care for, but they\u2019re also dinged when the same patients show up over and over again. That puts outlying medical facilities in the precarious position of needing to avoid repeat customers. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/how-helping-patients-get-good-care-at-home-helps-rural-hospitals-survive\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=68816275&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_gl6bzo5gY_LJ9FzAbbJLRmnyL2QdbTn3b1b6N643bMCPRw3PXb1HkSjWXGKHq8r4NfMcdVj5cBpzrwlNTh0XgIBFKpA&amp;_hsmi=68816275\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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