New rural hot spots are ICU bed deserts, study finds

Using Medicare data to pinpoint ICU beds, the authors found 49 percent of all low-income areas didn’t have any ICU beds, compared to just 3 percent of the wealthiest communities. While this gap existed across rural and urban settings, it is much greater in rural America — even the poorest urban areas had more ICU […]

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