in the extinguishment of a life-force. Likewise; the locality of a hospital with in a community can bring forth communal vigor or devastation. Communal health, vitality along with financial prosperity can be inexplicably linked to major hospitals proximity relative to higher skill level employment opportunities, insurgence of health promotion awareness activities, in addition to survivability rate increases due to emergent care access (Ragusea, 2014).
On other hand, hospitals shut their doors for various reasons similar to failing business practices; most notably for economic activities.
(Dunham-Taylor & Pinczuk, 2015, p.429). Pursuant to, the American Hospital Association in the last five year, there have been 55 rural hospital closures, or an average of more than 10 closures per year. (Hino, 2015). Closures of this magnitude can have a drastic communal ripple effect on the general public. Potentially, related consequences are result ant an increased unemployment rates rate since their employee base is usually the largest in a small town. Perhaps the most impactful of consequences is the losses of future economic renewal since most corporations are unwilling to forfeit profit probability similar to the dwindling that continues to occur in Sparta, Georgia after the closure of Hancock Memorial in 2000(Shrinkman, 2014). Subsequently, an article from Fierce health finance magazine explains that a the town’s downtrodden is largely due the thirty mile distance from nearby hospital plus an addition ninety minute commute by ambulance for sever emergent heath related needs. Startling enough, twenty such facilities have succumbed to closure in the California within a four year span of 2003-2006 (Dunham-Taylor & Pinczuk, 2015, p.429). Conclusively, it doesn’t take a fortune teller to see how once thriving, vibrant and financially sound communities, are becoming desolate wastelands due to a plethora of economic ramifications
stemming from closures or the downscaling health related services.