Report: Over Half of Texas’ Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closure

Report: Over Half of Texas’ Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closure

When Bill Elliott had a heart attack in 2019, it took his neighbor 45 minutes to drive him to an emergency room. He lived in Trinity, a small town in East Texas, where the county’s only hospital had closed two years earlier, leaving residents without immediate access to emergency care. “They had to drive to Livingston, which is 45 minutes away, with my dad having a heart attack,” Amber Elliott, Bill Elliott’s daughter, said. “You’re talking two-…