Thursday, April 11, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: Do these 12,000 workers realize that Kemmerer's only hospital is on life support?

 
Top headline: Cowboy State Daily, 4/8/2024
Bottom headline: In These Times, 4/10/2024

From In These Times:
In 2022, [Dave] Ryerse's South Lincoln Medical Center was forced to shutter its operating room because it didn’t have the staff to run it 24 hours a day. Soon after, the obstetrics unit closed. 
Ryerse said the publicly owned facility’s revenue from providing care has fallen short of operating expenses for at least the past eight years, driving tough decisions to cut services in hopes of keeping the facility open in Kemmerer, a town of about 2,400 in southwestern Wyoming.

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