More than $4.9 billion came from local payroll, and another $4.9 billion went toward supply purchases. Capital spending represented $458.8 million.
The Arkansas Hospital Association also estimated hospitals in the state indirectly supported another 32,700 jobs, or roughly $2.25 billion, through hospital employees’ personal purchases of groceries and other general goods and services.
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