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Free-standing emergency departments could be the solution to keeping hospital services in rural areas

Unknown 8:44 AM critical access hospitals, emergency medical service, health reform, hospitals, obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, rural health, rural-urban disparities
The tribulations of rural hospitals in Georgia, and the response, could signal a new direction for saving such facilities. Four rural hospit...
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Edelen says rural hospitals are top issue for rural U.S. and rural Kentucky; says some pols in state want to give up on rural Ky.

Edelen says rural hospitals are top issue for rural U.S. and rural Kentucky; says some pols in state want to give up on rural Ky.
Unknown 4:33 PM Affordable Care Act, critical access hospitals, health care access, health care reform, hospitals, insurance coverage, rural health
By Molly Burchett and Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – State Auditor Adam Edelen has finished his series of town-ha...
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