
Adjusting budgets to salvage rural health care
Health care is one area of life where one size does not fit all. That can be a real problem for small, rural communities like McKinley County, which rely on local hospitals for a full range of care – some of which isn’t available locally.
Fixing the situation won’t be easy and it’s going to take commitment, a panel of local providers told a community audience Sept. 10 at an event sponsored by Community Health Action Group.
Attendees were treated to a screening of the activist film American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System, which asks the question: “How can we incentivize hospitals to provide the highest quality care with the...