Lincoln Hospital would be the 12th rural Maine hospital in a decade to lose its labor and delivery unit.
Hospitals are both healthcare centers and economic hubs for rural communities.
Almost everyone in Thomasville, Alabama, has a story about how access to the local hospital — now closed — helped them in a crisis. This is Nichole Stinson’s.
Quick thinking and a $2.2 million investment preserved the emergency room.
'Without health care, people don’t want to stay here. I don't blame them,' a former nurse says.
