Sarah Jane Tribble
Senior Correspondent at KFF Health News
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2 days ago |
kffhealthnews.org | Sarah Jane Tribble |Holly Hacker |Lydia Zuraw
BRANCHLAND, W.Va. — Ada Carol Adkins lives with her two dogs in a trailer tucked into the timbers off Upper Mud River Road. “I’m comfortable here, but I’m having health issues,” said the 68-year-old, who retired from her job as a school cook several years ago after having a stroke. “Things are failing me.”Her trailer sits halfway up a ridge miles from town and the local health clinic. Her phone and internet are “wacky sometimes,” she said.
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2 days ago |
kktv.com | Sarah Jane Tribble |Holly Hacker |Owen Hornstein |Emily Featherston
If you regularly experience connection issues, click here to read a version of this story designed to open faster in low-signal areas. BRANCHLAND, West Virginia (InvestigateTV/KFF Health News) — Ada Carol Adkins lives with her two dogs in a trailer tucked into the timbers off Upper Mud River Road. “I’m comfortable here, but I’m having health issues,” said the 68-year-old, who retired from her job as a school cook several years ago after having a stroke.
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3 weeks ago |
capitalbnews.org | Sarah Jane Tribble |Holly Hacker
EUTAW, Ala. — Leroy Walker arrived at the county hospital short of breath. Walker, 65 and with chronic high blood pressure, was brought in by one of rural Greene County’s two working ambulances. Nurses checked his heart activity with a portable electrocardiogram machine, took X-rays, and tucked him into Room 122 with an IV pump pushing magnesium into his arm. “I feel better,” Walker said. Then: Beep. Beep. Beep.
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3 weeks ago |
timesdaily.com | Sarah Jane Tribble |Holly Hacker
EUTAW, Ala. — Leroy Walker arrived at the county hospital short of breath. Walker, 65 and with chronic high blood pressure, was brought in by one of rural Greene County’s two working ambulances. kAm}FCD6D 4964<65 9:D 962CE 24E:G:EJ H:E9 2 A@CE23=6 6=64EC@42C5:@8C2> >249:?6[ E@@< )\C2JD[ 2?5 EF4<65 9:> :?E@ #@@> `aa H:E9 2?
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1 month ago |
hastingstribune.com | Sarah Jane Tribble |Holly Hacker
By Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News, Holly K. Hacker, Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV KFF Health News (TNS) EUTAW, Ala. - Leroy Walker arrived at the county hospital short of breath. Walker, 65 and with chronic high blood pressure, was brought in by one of rural Greene County's two working ambulances. Nurses checked his heart activity with a portable electrocardiogram machine, took X-rays, and tucked him into Room 122 with an IV pump pushing magnesium into his arm.
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RT @Julie_appleby: Excellent story by my colleague, Darius Tahir https://t.co/2dbkijnQfd
RT @KFFHealthNews: NEW: Technological gaps handicap rural hospitals as billions in federal funding to modernize infrastructure lags. The re…
While the BEAD program and how to get high-speed internet is debated in DC, rural hospitals like the one @KFFHealthNews and @InvestigateTV visited are still waiting for a fast-enough connection. The beeping is what shocked me. https://t.co/Psvkn4aqS2
