{"id":19318,"date":"2021-12-23T10:17:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19318"},"modified":"2021-12-23T10:17:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:17:58","slug":"rural-communities-left-hurting-without-a-hospital-ambulance-or-doctors-nearby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19318","title":{"rendered":"Rural Communities Left Hurting Without a Hospital, Ambulance or Doctors Nearby"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Andy Miller for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>STATENVILLE, Ga. \u2014 Georgia\u2019s Echols County, which borders Florida, could be called a health care desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has no hospital, no local ambulances. A medical provider comes to treat patients at a migrant farmworker clinic but, other than a small public health department with two full-time employees, that\u2019s about the extent of the medical care in the rural county of 4,000 people.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/rural-communities-left-hurting-without-a-hospital-ambulance-or-doctors-nearby\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/rural-communities-left-hurting-without-a-hospital-ambulance-or-doctors-nearby\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"130\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andy Miller for Kaiser Health News) STATENVILLE, Ga. \u2014 Georgia\u2019s Echols County, which borders Florida, could be called a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19319,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19318\/revisions\/19319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}