this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2025
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Possibly Relevant, to those potentially impacted: The relationship between distance to hospital and patient mortality in emergencies: an observational study
TL;DR: The data supports the obvious conclusion - hospitals near home increase life expectancy.
I’m very familiar with at least one of these hospitals in the village where I grew up. Losing that hospital seems unimaginable. It is in a rural area and serves all the people in the surrounding valley. To shutter it would force patients to drive hours to the nearest facility.