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Number of rural hospital closures in the United States from 2005 to 2025

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Release date

May 2025

Region

United States

Survey time period

2005 to 2025 (as of May 27, 2025)

Supplementary notes

Release date represents the date figures were accessed.

The source provides the following information: 

  • 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

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Rural hospital closures in the U.S. 2005-2025

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