{"id":2234,"date":"2016-03-12T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T18:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2016-03-12T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T18:28:23","slug":"back-from-the-brink-a-rural-texas-hospital-shines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"Back From The Brink, A Rural Texas Hospital Shines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Brad and Sheryl Kott didn\u2019t think much of it seven years ago when their 13-year-old son, Quinn, complained his arm felt tingly. But later that day, Mr. Kott found Quinn \u2014 a friendly, energetic athlete \u2014 on the bathroom floor. His speech was garbled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe loaded him in the back of our pickup in the second seat, and we start heading to town to the emergency room right away,\u201d Brad Kott recalled. \u201cAnd on my way, my wife said, \u2018I think he\u2019s had a stroke.\u2019\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/back-from-the-brink-a-rural-texas-hospital-shines\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=27181317&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-97xR9DaTbenbo6Qec-Wh0NJ4s0IILaGVVKhY3KtzCYG95OD1esGRJ0bUcz1KM2I1fmMiJzns1O7ag9Q0_D2pDJ0VoBlQ&amp;_hsmi=27181317\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"khn-logo1\" width=\"92\" height=\"48\" srcset=\"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, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By &#8211; Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News) Brad and Sheryl Kott didn\u2019t think much of it seven years ago when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}