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Rural Health Care Figures Prominently in 2023’s Limited Political Races
Although 2023 is a relatively light election year, the attention rural health care is receiving in a handful of gubernatorial and legislative races could signal the issue’s importance in the much more consequential 2024 election season. In Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi, gubernatorial candidates are squaring off over whether to...
Deer Season Is Here. “Zombie Deer Disease” Is too.
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. A friend once told me about a hunting trip she went...
Rural Hospital Turns to Crowdfunding for Help
Bucktail Medical Center, an independent hospital in western Clinton County, Pennsylvania, is asking for nearly $1.5 million on the crowdfunding platform to help it stay open. Tim Reeves, the hospital’s administrator, said in an interview with the Daily Yonder that the 16-hospital bed and adjacent 43-bed nursing home are the only hospital with in-patient facilities for nearly 40 miles. While the hospital has struggled for years, he said, it had just come out of bankruptcy reorganization and plans were being made to attract more patients and increase revenue.
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