Source: North Carolina Rural Health Research Program
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This map depicts the locations of rural hospital closures — a total of 59 — between January 2012 and July 2021 in Arkansas and in neighboring states, most of which have not expanded Medicaid. It is based on data from the North Carolina Health Research Program.
Arkansas’s expansion of Medicaid in 2014 has helped it fare better than most neighboring states in avoiding the closing of rural hospitals, but the May 2019 closure of De Queen Medical Center shows that Arkansas is not immune to the financial constraints facing rural hospitals in the region.
Crittenden Regional Hospital in West Memphis closed in September 2014, but because of its proximity to Memphis it was not considered a rural hospital.
