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Refusal to Expand Medicaid in Kansas Linked to Rural Hospital Closing

By Jim McLean
Published September 14, 2015 at 4:31 PM CDT
The KHI News Service is an independent news agency, largely focused on health policy issues and state government news, based in Topeka.
The KHI News Service is an independent news agency, largely focused on health policy issues and state government news, based in Topeka.

The hospital that has served the residents of Independence, Kansas for nearly a century is closing its doors. Officials say several factors are to blame for the hospital’s financial struggles. But they say one stands out: Governor Sam Brownback’s rejection of Medicaid expansion. Jim McLean of the KHI News Service has more on how the closure of the southeast Kansas hospital could change the expansion debate in the state.

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The KHI News Service is a non-profit, independent news agency that covers state government, focusing on health and health-related issues.

 
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Health News rural healthIndependenceMercy Hospitalrural hospitalhospital closureMedicaid expansion
Jim McLean
Jim McLean, Executive Editor of KHI News Service, oversees the KHI News Service. From 2005 until 2013, McLean coordinated all communications activities at KHI as Vice President for Public Affairs. The position he now occupies was created as part of a strategic initiative to solidify the editorial and operational independence of the KHI News Service. Prior to coming to KHI, McLean had a distinguished career as a journalist, serving as the news director and Statehouse bureau chief for Kansas Public Radio and a managing editor for the Topeka Capital-Journal. During his more than 20 years in Kansas journalism, McLean won numerous awards for journalistic excellence from the Kansas Press Association, regional chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 1997, McLean and two Capital-Journal colleagues received the Burton W. Marvin News Enterprise Award from the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism for a series of stories on the state’s business climate. McLean holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washburn University.
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