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'Baxter Regional Medical Center'

Arkansas medical experts weigh in on past, present and future of COVID-19

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The economic fallout of COVID-19: A rural hospital in Mountain Home struggles to survive

Baxter Regional Medical Center has not yet had a confirmed case of COVID-19, but the Mountain Home hospital is nevertheless feeling the impacts of the pandemic. While hospitals in hot spots like New York have been filled to near capacity with COVID patients, many hospitals elsewhere have experienced the reverse. The delay of nonemergency procedures and other declines in hospital visits as people stay at home have dramatically slowed the volume of patients at Baxter Regional, leaving the hospital perilously short on revenues.
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Arkansas hospital survey: since enactment of private option, ER visits and number of uninsured patients down

Preliminary data from a survey of acute care hospitals in Arkansas suggests a dramatic decline in the number of uninsured patients hospitals are seeing since the enactment of the private option, Surgeon General Joe Thompson and Bo Ryall, president of the Arkansas Hospital Association, testified before a legislative subcommittee today. The survey also found that ER visits are down 2 percent statewide.
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