According to a 1/20/2022 Stacker reportr, Koekuk has the 3rd largest percentage of resident living in poverty (21.5%), behind Iowa City (27.6%) and Ames (28.1%). Take away the college students and Keokuk is #1.
Guess the Register doesn't see this as an issue. A word search for 'poverty' received 0 hits.
WBUR, 5/21/2021
Health Care Dive, 38/8/2022
For-profit hospitals were significantly less likely to offer emergency psychiatric services, care for HIV or AIDS, substance abuse treatment, and hospice and obstetric care, all of which are relatively unprofitable service lines.
Instead, for-profits were much more likely than nonprofit and government hospitals to offer lucrative adult cardiac surgeries, including both invasive major surgery like coronary artery bypass grafting surgery, and less invasive surgery.
Broken promise
Blessing Health System, 1/21/2021
“We are excited to have this opportunity to work with the residents of the region,” said Maureen Kahn, RN, MHA, MSN, President/Chief Executive Officer, Blessing Health System and Blessing Hospital. “We want to transform the healthcare system upon which they rely into one that will be available and relevant to the healthcare needs of the future.”
For Keokuk, 'the future' lasted less than 2 years.
ATTENTION BLESSING HEALTH SHOPPERS!!
Nothing in the Register article about a broken promise either.
Blessing Health, September 2022
Keokuk's population has shrunk to what it was during the Civil War.
I imagine hospital administrators looking at this population graph and thinking, "Whoa, we're outta here!"
Declining population. High rate of poverty. Where's the profit potential?
Source: Wikipedia
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