At the recent WCRI conference, I attended a session titled “Hospital Closures and Impact on Outcomes,” presented by Bogdan Savych, senior policy analyst at WCRI. The discussion focused on how hospital closures are affecting workers’ compensation and highlighted a reality that is easy to oversimplify but much harder to fully understand in practice.

Hospital closures are often framed as a crisis of access. But as Savych emphasized, the story is far more nuanced. Care is not simply disappearing. It is shifting. And that shift is fundamentally changing how injured workers receive treatment, how far they must travel, and how employers need to think about care delivery.

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