Time4aNAPPremium
join:2007-04-09
Des Plaines, IL | said by marigolds:The exact same thing happened with the rural health clinics programs. The clinics ended up in suburbs. The definitions on which these programs are based need to change. Another important issue in this regard.
My grandparents lived most of their lives in a small town that is 80+ miles from the nearest cities. It used to have a hospital, an ambulance, and (until it closed) one of my cousins on staff. The physicians who served my grandparents, mother, aunt, uncles, cousins and me have retired and/or passed away. Very few new MDs have come in to take their place.
My cousin the nurse now works at a clinic in a larger small town. (Although it's a county seat, her former home town has no clinics.) Any trauma cases must wait well past the Golden Hour for help to arrive, never mind getting to a regional trauma center.
Ironically, it was in the same town that I got my first glimpse of cable TV. Go figure. |
