Without Price Breaks, Rural Hospitals Struggle To Stock Costly, Lifesaving Drugs

(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark. — Hospital pharmacist Mandy Langston remembers when Lulabelle Berry arrived at Stone County Medical Center’s emergency department last year.

Berry couldn’t talk. Her face was drooping on one side. Her eyes couldn’t focus.

“She was basically unresponsive,” Langston recalls. Continue reading article here…

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