{"id":5491,"date":"2017-01-04T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5491"},"modified":"2017-01-04T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:40:28","slug":"in-a-small-town-in-texas-a-rural-hospital-thrives-against-all-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5491","title":{"rendered":"In a small town in Texas, a rural hospital thrives against all odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Charlotte Huff for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">C<\/span>HILDRESS, Texas \u2014 To get to the hospital, you drive. And drive. It\u2019s 220 miles northwest from Fort Worth, along a flat landscape with lots of sky and lots of cows and lots of haystacks. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/01\/04\/hospital-rural-childress-texas\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_BvyCtzOngnaEW1Jfz5W413KkTo4v9n1H76Qp2kkmf1LRB6dUdM6_DlkIveGOrptXK1RbeT3xMs9P-0uLvC_Zl0BqWzQ&amp;_hsmi=40059765\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"stat-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/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 Charlotte Huff for STAT) CHILDRESS, Texas \u2014 To get to the hospital, you drive. And drive. It\u2019s 220 miles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","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=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}