New Kind of Hospital Coming to Rural America, Without Inpatient Beds

Patients can enter the Alliance Healthcare System hospital in Holly Springs, Mississippi, only through the emergency room and the small admittance office at the side after the facility transitioned to a rural emergency hospital. Alliance Healthcare System hospital CEO Kenneth Williams said on Feb. 29, 2024, that after the Holly Springs, Mississippi, facility was approved as a rural emergency hospital in March 2023, the federal government later reneged on its decision, saying the hospital is not rural,

As rural hospitals continue to struggle financially in the United States, a new type of hospital is slowly taking root, especially in the Southeast.