All posts tagged "Rural"
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38LifestyleCovid Worsened Shortages of Docs and Nurses. Five Years On, Rural Hospitals Nonetheless Wrestle.
Even by rural hospital requirements, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The 14-bed hospital, in Sigourney, doesn’t do...
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37LifestyleIn Rural Massachusetts, Patients and Physicians Weigh Commerce-Offs of Concierge Medicine
Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small metropolis two hours west of Boston, for about 10 years....
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56LifestyleRural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Fashionable Care
EUTAW, Ala. — Leroy Walker arrived on the county hospital wanting breath. Walker, 65 and with continual hypertension, was introduced in by...
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92LifestyleWith Few Dentists and Fluoride Underneath Siege, Rural America Dangers New Surge of Tooth Decay
Brett Kelman In the wooded highlands of northern Arkansas, the place small cities have few dentists, water officers who serve greater than...
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108LifestylePoisonous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Taint Rural California Ingesting Water, Far From Known Sources
Juana Valle by no means imagined she’d be scared to drink water from her faucet or eat contemporary eggs and walnuts when...
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161LifestyleCommunity Health Employees Unfold Throughout the US, Even in Rural Areas
HURON, S.D. — Kelly Engebretson was excited to get fitted for a prosthetic after having a part of his leg amputated. But...
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155LifestyleVance Wrongly Blames Rural Hospital Closures on Immigrants within the Nation Illegally
Sam Whitehead “We’re bankrupting a lot of hospitals by forcing these hospitals to provide care for people who don’t have the legal right...
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140LifestyleExtra Mobile Clinics Are Bringing Lengthy-Performing Start Management to Rural Areas
Twice a month, a 40-foot-long truck reworked right into a cell clinic travels the Rio Grande Valley to offer rural Texans with...
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174LifestyleA Few Rural Towns Are Bucking the Development and Constructing New Hospitals
There’s a brand new morning ritual in Pinedale, Wyoming, a city of about 2,000 nestled in opposition to the Wind River Mountains....
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182LifestyleRural NC County Is Set To Reopen Its Shuttered Hospital With Help From a New Federal Program
Taylor Sisk WILLIAMSTON, N.C. — On a mid-August morning, Christopher Harrison stood in entrance of the shuttered Martin General Hospital recalling the...