‘No Mercy’ Explores the Fallout After a Exiguous Town Loses Its Successfully being heart

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Midwesterners aren’t identified for complaining. However after Mercy Successfully being heart Fortress Scott closed, hardship trickled the total model down to of us whose lives were already hard. In Chapter 1, we meet Pat Wheeler, who has emphysema. Her husband, Ralph, has pause-stage kidney failure, and the couple are barely making ends meet as they raise their teenage grandson. Pat is livid with health heart executives who she talked about yanked a lifeline from residents. “I don’t realize how they’ll upright so blatantly shut the health heart. I imply, I realize greenbacks and cents,” Wheeler talked about. “However at the same token, the put’s the humanity? , what are of us take care of us supposed to beget?” she talked about.

Many others felt the same. Fortress Scott City Supervisor Dave Martin felt betrayed. And worn, longtime health heart employee Roxine Poznich talked about: “You upright don’t know the anguish that the staff were in — no longer upright for themselves, however for the neighborhood. I imply, there had been plenty and hundreds tears that I observed. And it became upright very sad on legend of these of us, they were my household,” she talked about.

Every season, “The put It Hurts” takes you somewhere fresh — to an overpassed segment of the nation to explore cracks within the American health system that trudge away of us frustrated — and without the care they need.

The chronicle begins in Fortress Scott, Kansas. Rural. Deeply Christian. And sicker than other components of the pronounce. When Mercy Successfully being heart shut its doors, the town’s sense of identity wavered. Season One “No Mercy” is referring to the of us that remain, surviving the acceptable map they know the map. Host and investigative journalist Sarah Jane Tribble spent more than a year revisiting southeastern Kansas, the put she grew up, to doc the sparking tensions, enrage and be troubled many of us felt as they struggled to return to terms with the health heart’s closure.

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“The put It Hurts” is a podcast collaboration between KHN and St. Louis Public Radio. Season One extends the storytelling from Sarah Jane Tribble’s award-winning series, “No Mercy.”

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