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Season 1 • Episode 75

Losing a Hospital

Tradeoffs · 18 min

Episode Description

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


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