Support Donate Now Membership Update Your Information Business Partnership Donate Your Vehicle Charitable IRA Rollover Donor Advised Funds Endowments Planned Giving Donate Now Membership Update Your Information Business Partnership Donate Your Vehicle Charitable IRA Rollover Donor Advised Funds Endowments Planned Giving Last year, a group of Democratic U.S. senators warned that proposed Medicaid cuts could put hundreds of rural hospitals across the country at risk of reducing services or closing. The June 2025 letter, written by four senators including Edward Markey of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon, cited analysis from the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina. It identified 12 Indiana hospitals as financially vulnerable because they either had multiple years of negative operating margins or served a high share…

A year later, both hospitals remain open and are expanding services. But while their financial situations differ, officials from both hospitals say workforce shortages remain one of the biggest long-term threats to rural healthcare. "We've been able to break even just in the last month," said Justin Harris, CEO of Daviess Community Hospital. When Harris arrived last summer, the hospital had posted losses for several consecutive years. "Over the past couple of years, this hospital has not made any money," he said. "They've not even come close to break even." Harris said the hospital was nearing the point where it risked missing payroll before changes to operations and new investments began improving its finances.