The project updates the Financial Distress Index Model (FDI) with current hospital and market data and to evaluate changes in risk status and geographic distribution over time. We will conduct an in-depth analysis of high risk hospitals including identifying distance to other hospitals, community demographic/SES information, health outcomes, and workforce factors to test their ability to predict high-risk status.

Publications

• To What Extent Do Community Characteristics Explain Differences in Closure Among Financially Distressed Rural Hospitals?
  Journal Article
  North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
  Date: 11/2016
  This study examined the differences between rural hospitals at high risk of financial distress that stayed open and those that closed.