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Source Medpagetoday
The news is replete with stories of how the health system has been battered over the past few years. There are workforce shortagesopens in a new tab or window and healthcare professionals leavingopens in a new tab or window in droves. Clinicians face record levels of burnoutopens in a new tab or window. Across the country, 631 rural hospitals face impending closureopens in a new tab or window. Moreover, extreme weatheropens in a new tab or window could shut down one in 12 hospitals worldwide. Among U.S. counties, 90%opens in a new tab or window have experienced a weather disaster in the last decade, and 40%opens in a new tab or window of Americans live in counties that faced a climate disaster in 2021 alone.
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