Bob Wilson: When a hospital closes, the intuitive assumption is that everything gets worse — longer drives, delayed treatment, higher medical costs, extended disability. New research from the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute suggests the reality is more nuanced than that, and the findings carry important implications for employers, carriers, and injured workers in communities losing access to hospital-based care...

You can read his full analysis of this key panel from the WCRI Conference here.

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