December 13, 2020: What happens to a Kansas town when its only hospital closes? It's the final two chapters of "Where It Hurts," exploring the closing of Mercy Hospital and its effect on the health care, economy, and community of Fort Scott, Kansas. This series, produced by Sarah Jane Tribble, comes from KHN, Kaiser Health News.
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Special to 01/02/21 broadcast: Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the polio virus plagued the U.S. for decades before a vaccine was distributed in 1955. Kansas News Service contributor Anne Kniggerdorf speaks with 80-year-old Pat Gray at her assisted living facility in Lenexa about surviving that disease.
