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Professor Mohapatra Offers Insight on Hospital and Clinic Closures
07/01/2020
Hundreds of employees and patients are left in limbo as Community Health Network announced it will close two Kokomo facilities — an outpatient rehab clinic and specialty hospital, according to a report by WRTV-Channel 6.
Call 6 Investigates uncovered layoffs and closures happening despite the healthcare system receiving $218 million in federal stimulus money.
IU McKinney Law Associate Professor Seema Mohapatra said healthcare systems look at a variety of factors when deciding whether to close a facility.
"It could just be a strategy of the system and what they've decided to do, and as a private entity, they can do that," said Mohapatra. "But a closure really impacts people in terms of how far they have to travel to get care."
Professor Mohapatra is a Dean’s Fellow at IU McKinney Law. Her research has focused on equity issues, centering on race and gender, in bioethics, public health law, and biotechnology and the law. She is an expert in the areas of health care law, public health law, bioethics, torts, and international family law.
