Sarah Jane Tribble
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When Martin General Hospital in eastern North Carolina closed abruptly in 2023, it left a county of about 22,000 residents with no hospital and no highly trained paramedics.
Deborah Pierce lost her brother, who died at home from a heart attack.
The sad thing is we'll never know.
if he could have been saved that night or not, because we don't have a higher level of care in this county.
The Trump administration's $50 billion fund to support rural health care has limits on how much can be spent on hospital construction and expansion.
It can be used to improve emergency services, but local officials say they aren't counting on the federal money to reopen their hospital.
When Martin General Hospital in eastern North Carolina closed abruptly in 2023, it left a
and no highly trained paramedics.
Deborah Pierce lost her brother, who died at home from a heart attack.
The sad thing is we'll never know if he could have been saved that night or not because we don't have a higher level of care in this county.
The Trump administration's $50 billion fund to support rural health care has limits on how much can be spent on hospital construction and expansion.
It can be used to improve emergency services, but local officials say they aren't counting on the federal money to reopen their hospital.
More than 90 percent of the patients at Ohio State psychiatric hospitals have been charged with a crime.
Two decades ago, about half of the patients were criminally charged.
Ohio retired Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton has seen people with unmet mental health needs cycle through the courts for years.
It hurts everybody who has someone who needs to get a hospital bed that's not in the criminal justice system.
Patients charged with crimes tend to stay longer in state hospitals, so fewer patients are being served today than 10 years ago.