‘Who’s going to take care of these people?’:As emergencies rise across rural America...
Story Date: 5/15/2019

 

Source: Eli Saslow, WASHINGTON POST, 5/11/19

The hospital had already transferred out most of its patients and lost half its staff when the CEO called a meeting to take inventory of what was left. Employees crammed into Tina Steele’s office at Fairfax Community Hospital, where the air conditioning was no longer working and the computer software had just been shut off for nonpayment. “I want to start with good news,” Steele said, and she told them a food bank would make deliveries to the hospital and Dollar General would donate office supplies.

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