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Rural hospital closings reach crisis stage, leaving millions without nearby health care

  • Written by Jane Bolin, Professor of Health Policy + Management, Deputy Director of the Southwest Rural Health Research Center; Associate dean of research, College of Nursing, Texas A&M University
A welcome sign to Bristol, a small town that sits in Virginia and Tennessee, June 26, 2019. Bristol is trying to recruit doctors because the rural town is facing many of the same health care shortages of other rural towns.Sudhin Thanawala/AP Photo

Presidential candidates and other politicians have talked about the rural health crisis in the U.S.,...

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