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Sublette is the only Wyoming county without a hospital. That’s about to change as work continues to build a new $73.8 million hospital in Pinedale.

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Sublette County is the only county in the state without a hospital but the community is trying to change that. Back in November of 2020, voters approved the formation of the Sublette County Hospital District by a 60 percent margin. This granted the district the ability to levy a property tax to build a hospital and long-term care facility. Since then, the Sublette County Health Foundation has been trying to secure funding. Wyoming Public Radio’s Kamila Kudelska spoke to Kari Dewitt, Sublette C...

Kari DeWitt of Pinedale, Wyoming, needed a blood transfusion. It was 2014, and her placenta had partially ruptured; she and her unborn son were in critical condition. But Pinedale has no local hospital, only a town clinic, so she couldn’t get the help she required there. DeWitt, a theater producer who leads the Pinedale Fine Arts Council, had to wait 45 minutes for a medi-flight plane to transfer her to a hospital in Idaho Falls, over 100 miles away. Within three minutes of her arrival, she g...