More and more hospitals are shedding their less profitable pediatric services, a review of 20 years of hospital activity has revealed.
Driven by a combination of staffing issues and low Medicaid payments, hospitals are increasingly closing some of their pediatric services, according to a review in the journal Pediatrics, which found that
Among more than 3000 US hospitals, 26.7% provided minimal pediatric services in 2003, which increased to 65.0% in 2022…
Learn more about the challenges hospitals face in providing care for children and the impact of 20 years of decline in hospitals’ ability to provide such care from the Axios article “Hospitals are dropping pediatric services: Study” and from the report “Pediatric Capabilities in US Hospitals: 2003–2022” in the journal Pediatrics.