{"id":494,"date":"2019-01-19T22:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T22:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthministryfund.blackwellstaging.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2019-01-28T22:56:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T22:56:28","slug":"health-care-alternative-solutions-sought-in-rural-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/health-care-alternative-solutions-sought-in-rural-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Health care: Alternative solutions sought in rural Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The announcement earlier this year that Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott would close by the end of the year was a surprise and shock to the community, which will lose several hundred jobs and more than a century of community health care legacy.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>But it was not necessarily unexpected to those in the industry.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Many hospitals across Kansas, as around the country, have struggled the past decade with declining patient numbers amid rising costs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>According to the Kansas Hospital Association, of the state\u2019s 127 hospitals spread across 91 counties, more than two-thirds had negative operating margins in a recent national study.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.morningsun.net\/news\/20190119\/health-care-alternative-solutions-sought-in-rural-kansas\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>By John Green, GateHouse Kansas<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement earlier this year that Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott would close by the end of the year was a surprise and shock to the community, which will lose several hundred jobs and more than a century of community health care legacy. But it was not necessarily unexpected to those in the industry. Many &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfund.org\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}