{
  "id": 12938689,
  "title": "Hospital closures on the rise in both rural and urban areas—particularly among safety-net hospitals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/08/hospital-closures-on-the-rise-in-both-rural-and-urban-areas",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-08T19:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-10-hospital-closures-rural-urban-areas.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "More hospitals across the U.S. are closing than opening, and urban hospitals are closing at the same rate as rural ones, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Further, the hospitals that close are more likely to be those serving socially vulnerable communities.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}