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Emergency care gets complicated after a hospital closes. On a cold February evening, when Robert Findley fell and hit his head on a patch of ice, his wife, Linda, called 911. The delays that came next exposed the frayed patchwork that sometimes stands in for rural health care.
After Mercy Hospital Fort Scott shut down, many locals had big opinions about what kind of health care the town needed.
Words of experience is, you dont know when that tragedy is going to happen, Linda Findley said.
Fort Scotts free-standing ER and the new community health center arent enough, she said.
I mean, my gosh, you need to feel like youre safe and could be taken care of where youre at, she said.
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