Rural Hospitals Teeter on Financial Cliff as COVID Medicare Loans Come Due
(WorldNews Health)

Note to Readers: Sarah Jane Tribble spent more than a year and half reporting on a small town in Kansas that lost its only hospital. This month, KHN and St. Louis Public Radio will launch “Where It Hurts,” a podcast exploring the often painful cracks growing in America`s health system that leave people vulnerable — and without the care they need. Season One is “ No Mercy,” focusing on the hospital closure in Fort Scott, Kansas — and what happens to the people left behind, surviving the best way they know how. You can listen to Episode One on Tuesday, Sept. 29. David Usher is sitting on $1.7 million he`s scared to spend. The money lent from the federal government is meant to help hospitals...