{"id":14142,"date":"2026-06-26T02:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14142"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:36:40","slug":"why-still-open-is-the-wrong-way-to-measure-the-hospital-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14142","title":{"rendered":"Why \u2018Still Open\u2019 Is the Wrong Way to Measure the Hospital Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/hospital-healthcare-access\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Counting hospital closures only tells part of the story, noted Duane Fitch, partner at Plante Moran. Across the country, hundreds of hospitals remain technically open while steadily shedding services their communities depend on, such as emergency care, obstetrics and psychiatric care.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/06\/hospital-healthcare-access\/\">Why \u2018Still Open\u2019 Is the Wrong Way to Measure the Hospital Crisis<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting hospital closures only tells part of the story, noted Duane Fitch, partner at Plante Moran. Across the country, hundreds of hospitals remain technically open while steadily shedding services their communities depend on, such as emergency care, obstetrics and psychiatric care. The post Why \u2018Still Open\u2019 Is the Wrong Way to Measure the Hospital Crisis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}