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Complete: Facilities no longer provide health care services.
*Converted: Facilities no longer provide in-patient services, but continue to provide some health care services (e.g., primary care, skilled nursing care, long-term care).
Rural hospitals: critical access hospital, or a rural emergency hospital, or any short-term, general acute, non-federal hospital that is located in: any non-metro county, metro census tracts with RUCA codes 4-10, or large area Metro census tracts of at least 400 sq. miles in area with population density of 35 or less per sq. mile with RUCA codes 2-3. Beginning with Fiscal Year 2022 Rural Health Grants, we consider all outlying metro counties without an Urbanized Area to be rural
Between 2005 and May 2025, a total of *** rural hospitals have completely closed or been converted*, no longer providing in-patient services in the United States. The number of closures has fluctuated, with more hospitals having completely closed than converted.
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