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Rural Kansas Hospitals Continue to Close and Keeping Them Open Only Gets Harder

By Kansas News Service
Published November 11, 2019 at 3:28 PM CST
Patients enter the Patterson Health Center, a new facility in Harper County in south-central Kansas. (Photo: Chris Neal, Kansas News Service)
Patients enter the Patterson Health Center, a new facility in Harper County in south-central Kansas. (Photo: Chris Neal, Kansas News Service)

​Rural hospitals are closing their doors at alarming rates across the country including four in Kansas since 2015. As Jim McLean of the Kansas News Service reports, many more are hanging on by a thread. 

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The Kansas News Service produces essential enterprise reporting, diving deep and connecting the dots in tracking the policies, issues and and events that affect the health of Kansans and their communities. The team is based at KCUR and collaborates with public media stations and other news outlets across Kansas. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org. The Kansas News Service is made possible by a group of funding organizations, led by the Kansas Health Foundation. Other founders include United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, Sunflower Foundation, REACH Healthcare Foundation and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
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