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Thursday, April 09, 2020

Small-Town Hospitals Are Closing Just As Coronavirus Arrives In Rural America

By this time next week, Decatur County, Tenn., will have lost its only hospital, Decatur County General, which has been serving the rural community of about 12,000 people along the Tennessee River since 1963.

The hospital's human resources director, Melinda Hays-Kirkwood, has already begun laying off people, and she says by next week only a skeleton staff will remain.

"It's hard on these employees that have been here a long time. I've got people who have been here for 30 years," Hays-Kirkwood says. "For some people, this has been their only job out of college."

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Joe
NO POWER in mardela x 3 hrs you would think the scumbags at Delmarva power would be around and on this ? Pathetic and PITCH BLACK.