{"id":913,"date":"2024-10-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2024-10-01T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T09:00:00","slug":"nearly-half-of-metro-areas-have-only-one-or-two-hospitals-or-health-systems-providing-inpatient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Nearly Half of Metro Areas Have Only One or Two Hospitals or Health Systems Providing Inpatient Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half (47%) of metropolitan areas across the country had only one or two hospitals or health systems providing general inpatient hospital care in 2022, a new KFF analysis finds. The analysis examines the extent of competition among hospitals amid a wave of hospital consolidation that has drawn the attention of state and federal regulators.<span class=\"readmore-ellipsis\">\u2026<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/press-release\/nearly-half-of-metro-areas-have-only-one-or-two-hospitals-or-health-systems-providing-inpatient-care\/\" class=\"see-more light-beige no-float inline-readmore\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half (47%) of metropolitan areas across the country had only one or two hospitals or health systems providing general inpatient hospital care in 2022, a new KFF analysis finds. The analysis examines the extent of competition among hospitals amid a wave of hospital consolidation that has drawn the attention of state and federal regulators.\u2026More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913"}],"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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}