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Apr 15, 2021 17 min

Losing a Hospital

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More than 130 hospitals have closed in rural America over the last decade. Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble spent a year embedded in one small Kansas town as they dealt with their own hospital closure. Guest: Sarah Jane Tribble, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News Read a transcript of this conversation: https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/08/losing-a-hospital/ Hear more of Sarah Jane's reporting about Fort Scott on the first season of Where It Hurts: whereithurts.show Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod

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