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WSHU’s J.D. Allen spoke with CT Mirror’s Katy Golvala to discuss her article, “As hospital systems grow in Connecticut, rural patients lose services,” as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.
Health care systems have closed labor and delivery units, ICUs and surgical services at hospitals across the state.
On a Sunday evening in February, Bea Trotta’s 94-year-old mother started having trouble breathing at her home in the northwestern corner of the state. She felt exhausted. An ambulance drove her 30 minutes to the nearest emergency room, at Sharon Hospital, where she was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Her heart wasn’t pumping enough blood to keep her body functioning.
Health care systems have closed labor and delivery units, ICUs, and surgical services at...
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Across the country, hospital mergers are changing the ways in which people access health care.