Losing a Hospital

<p>More than 130 hospitals have closed in rural America over the last decade. Reporter Sarah Jane Tribble spent a year embedded in one small Kansas town as they dealt with their own hospital closure.</p><p><br></p><p>Guest: <a href="https://khn.org/news/author/sarah-jane-tribble/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sarah Jane Tribble</a>, Senior Correspondent, Kaiser Health News</p><p><br></p><p>Read a transcript of this conversation: <a href="https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/08/losing-a-hospital/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://tradeoffs.org/2020/10/08/losing-a-hospital/</a></p><p><br></p><p>Hear more of Sarah Jane's reporting about Fort Scott on the first season of <em>Where It Hurts:</em> <a href="https://create.acast.com/episodes/f19b07e1-a78d-4922-9544-edfd04d34b51/whereithurts.show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">whereithurts.show</a></p><p><br></p><p>Sign up for our weekly newsletter to see what research health policy experts are reading right now, plus recommendations from our staff: <a href="https://create.acast.com/episodes/723a3a91-aa98-4a64-91a9-ec3049cc20d7/bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bit.ly/tradeoffsnewsletter</a></p><p><br></p><p>Follow us on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/tradeoffspod</a></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>