A lopsided war is being waged in a small town off Interstate ... initiative to be healthier when the hospital closed because medical help wasn’t across town. “It sent a red flag that our ...

THOMASVILLE, Ala. — It was a moonshot effort for a small Southern town: Open a brand-new rural hospital in the poorest region of one of the poorest states in the nation.

The lack of a hospital didn’t stop Emily Donovan from moving to Belzoni from Vicksburg in 2015. Her love of the lush Mississippi Delta and small-town life outweighed her concerns. After all ...

Less than half of Missouri’s rural hospitals have labor and delivery departments, with two closing since 2020.

It was a moonshot effort for a small Southern town: Open a brand-new rural hospital in the poorest region of one of the poorest states in the nation. Thomasville, which has fewer than 4,000 ...

It also closed its Springfield, Minnesota, hospital. Further back in time ... That is what happened in Kenyon and Blooming Prairie, both towns just shy of 2,000 people located about 40 miles ...

This is precisely the time for them to take a hard look at the hospital mergers occurring in rural and small-town Missouri before these consolidations can cause the kind of irreparable harm to our ...

Spencer, who grew up in the small rural town of Clarion ... One of her aunts worked in a hospital operating room and agreed to let Spencer shadow her. The time she spent there increased her ...