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Background and Policy Briefs

• Thomas SR, Pink GH, Reiter KL. Characteristics of Communities Served by Critical Access Hospitals at High Risk of Financial Distress in 2019 (Policy Brief #48).
• Thomas SR, Pink GH, Reiter KL. Trends in Risk of Financial Distress among Rural Hospitals from 2015 to 2019 (April 2019). NC Rural Health Research Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. FB 153.
• Thomas SR, Pink GH, Reiter KL. Geographic Variation in the 2019 Risk of Financial Distress among Rural Hospitals (April 2019). NC Rural Health Research Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. FB 152.
• Thomas SR, Pink GH, Reiter KL. Characteristics of Communities Served by Rural Hospitals Predicted to be at High Risk of Financial Distress in 2019 (April 2019). NC Rural Health Research Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. FB 151.
• Richman EC, Pink, GH. Characteristics of Communities Served by Hospitals at High Risk of Financial Distress (December 2017). NC Rural Health Research Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. FB 141.
• GM Holmes, BG Kaufman and GH Pink. Predicting Financial Distress in Rural Hospitals, Journal of Rural Health, Summer 2017;33(3):239-249.
• Sharita R. Thomas, George M. Holmes, George H. Pink. To What Extent do Community Characteristics Explain Differences in Closure among Financially Distressed Rural Hospitals? Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved Nov 2016 Supplement;(27,4):194-203.
• Kaufman BG, Randolph R, Pink G, Holmes M. Trends in Risk of Financial Distress among Rural Hospitals (October 2016). NC Rural Health Research Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. FB 133.
• Kaufman B, Rutledge R, Pink G, Holmes M. Geographic Variation in Risk of Financial Distress among Rural Hospitals (January 2016). NC Rural Health Research Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. FB 127.
• Kaufman B, Pink G, Holmes M Prediction of Financial Distress among Rural Hospitals (January 2016). NC Rural Health Research Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. FB 126.
• Holmes GM, Pink G. Change in Profitability and Financial Distress of Critical Access Hospitals from Loss of Cost-Based Reimbursement. (December 2013). NC Rural Health Research Program, UNC-Chapel Hill. FB112.
• George H. Pink, George M. Holmes, Rebecca T. Slifkin, and Roger E. Thompson. Developing Financial Benchmarks for Critical Access Hospitals. Health Care Financ Rev. 2009 Spring; 30(3): 55–69.