{"id":24232,"date":"2025-04-09T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24232"},"modified":"2025-04-09T08:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T12:23:33","slug":"rural-hospitals-and-patients-are-disconnected-from-modern-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24232","title":{"rendered":"Rural Hospitals and Patients Are Disconnected From Modern Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble and Holly K. Hacker and Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EUTAW, Ala. \u2014 Leroy Walker arrived at the county hospital short of breath. Walker, 65 and with chronic high blood pressure, was brought in by one of rural Greene County\u2019s two working ambulances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nurses checked his heart activity with a portable electrocardiogram machine, took X-rays, and tucked him into Room 122 with an IV pump pushing magnesium into his arm.  Continue reading<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/dead-zone-rural-hospitals-outdated-internet-disconnect-care-disparities\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/dead-zone-rural-hospitals-outdated-internet-disconnect-care-disparities\/\"> here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Sarah Jane Tribble and Holly K. Hacker and Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV for KFF Health News) EUTAW, Ala. \u2014 Leroy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1248,21,587],"tags":[1249,238,410,1169],"class_list":["post-24232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-technology","category-health-care-finance","category-rural-health","tag-digital-technology","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-rural-health","tag-rural-hospitals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232","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=24232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24233,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24232\/revisions\/24233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}