Why are osteopathic hospitals across the country, and especially in Texas, closing?
Regardless of philosophy, small hospitals face financial, quality and market challenges. The specific challenge of many osteopathic hospitals has been related to osteopathic physicians’ widespread acceptance in nearly all hospitals across the country. As DOs earned greater respect in the medical community, they often chose to admit their patients and complete their surgeries at non-osteopathic hospitals. As volumes fell at the osteopathic hospitals, most of them closed, including all osteopathic hospitals in Texas.
