Rural hospitals across the state — and country — are in trouble, urgently. Labor and supplies are getting more expensive. Federal Medicaid cuts are projected to cut into their revenues.
And places like Inyo County, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, face the prospect of having to close key medical facilities.
Southern Inyo Healthcare District, one of two hospitals in the county, had eight days of cash on hand as of Sept.12, the hospital’s chief executive told our Kristen Hwang. Hospitals usually have more than 200 days of cash on hand…