Some hospitals are sputtering right along, and a list of 12 isn't a great piece of evidence that those hospitals (many of which are run by regional organizations which are essentially consolidating patient pools into a central location) are being run effectively - especially if these hospitals are paying 10k/week for travel nurses.
If there's a location that isn't profitable to operate a hospital in then the hospital will probably fail. America is the country still clinging to market-driven healthcare services and the market can be a cruel mistress.
And all that doesn't at all erode the fact that nurses are paid pauper's wages at extremely profitable hospitals - some tech companies are going out of business, some probably closed their doors today... that doesn't mean that all engineers are expected to work for 60hrs/week at $15/hr.
That article was just a recent example. If you search around you can find many other hospitals which have closed down or gone through bankruptcy in recent years.
If there's a location that isn't profitable to operate a hospital in then the hospital will probably fail. America is the country still clinging to market-driven healthcare services and the market can be a cruel mistress.
And all that doesn't at all erode the fact that nurses are paid pauper's wages at extremely profitable hospitals - some tech companies are going out of business, some probably closed their doors today... that doesn't mean that all engineers are expected to work for 60hrs/week at $15/hr.