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Growing Concern Over The Availability Of Health Care In Rural Arizona

By Steve Goldstein
Published: Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 4:29pm
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The availability of health care in rural Arizona has long been a concern. And that’s been ratcheted up in the past few days with the closure of the Cochise Regional Hospital in Douglas, thanks to the loss of Medicare funding in July.

We learned more from Ken Alltucker, who covers healthcare for The Arizona Republic.

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