#Rural Hospitals

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Hospital shuts down labor and delivery department

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Charlotte Clymer at Charlotte's Web Thoughts (10.15.2024):

This morning, the Harris-Walz campaign announced an extensive economic plan for rural communities. It’s a deeply impressive vision for working class families in these parts of the country. Given that much—perhaps, most—of political media will not adequately report on this and inform voters of what Vice President Harris plans to do for Rural America, I’m gonna take the rare step of publishing her plan, in full, as a blog post. I’m doing this because Lord knows we’re all more likely to see an intellectually dishonest column in The New York Times about Vice President Harris ignoring rural voters than we are to see significant reporting and analysis on her proposed policies for rural voters.

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Vice President Harris and Governor Walz believe in rural communities and understand that supporting locally led solutions is key to rural prosperity. Their administration will make it a priority to equip the nearly 50 million rural Americans with the tools and resources they need not just to get by, but get ahead. Today, Vice President Harris and Governor Walz are announcing a plan for rural America. The key elements will:

Increase access to affordable and high-quality health care in rural communities—by adding 10,000 health care professionals, expanding telemedicine, cutting the number of ambulance deserts in half.

Support the sandwich generation to care for elders at home, lowering the cost of childcare and increasing the number of providers, and expanding the Child Tax Credit to provide tax cuts up to $6,000 for families with newborns.

Lower the costs of buying a home, starting and expanding a business, and raising a family—by sparking the construction of 3 million new housing units, providing up to $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, increasing the small business tax deduction for startup expenses 10-fold to $50,000.

Invest in the future of American agriculture by boosting access to credit, land, and markets, building new markets and streams of income for small- and mid-sized farmers and producers, and supporting the rise of the next generation of American farmers and ranchers.

Donald Trump will turn back the hard-earned progress that rural communities are making. As President, he tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act and vows to terminate it if reelected, stripping protections from people with pre-existing conditions and devastating rural hospitals and care services. He will ban abortion nationwide, threaten access to contraception and IVF, and force states to monitor women’s pregnancies and report women’s miscarriages and abortions to the federal government.

Want a candidate who has real plans to help Rural Americans instead of bluster and grievances? The Kamala Harris and Tim Walz ticket have lots of great plans to help rural folk.

[alwaysbewoke]

[honeyrosepetals]

abandoned dejarnette sanitarium

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Forgotten (OC)

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[alexandraundone]

This was taken in an abandoned hospital in Maryland. I can’t remember the name… but I think it’s long since been burnt down/torn down/destroyed.

You really do forget shit when you get older.

[toffeenutcrunchlatte]

[thoughtportal]

Kentucky Roast Beef

[hiveswap]

You went to the ER? You okay?

Ovaries acting strange again yk the usual. Don't get sick in hungary they're gonna ruin your life for it in a way that feels like it has got to be on purpose

[jellogram]

Do you think this is something that is only true in America? Do you think America is the only country where people live an hour away from hospitals? Do you think most countries are 100% walkable with no rural areas that lack transit? Do you think the defining factor in what makes a country walkable is whether or not there are no places that don't have hospitals? How the fuck does this have 22k notes???

I'm so fucking tired of people thinking the rest of the world outside the US is some sort of interconnected public transit paradise. Yes the US lacks a train system that would benefit it greatly. Yes our urban centers are designed to be car centric. This is still a silly post that could only originate from an extremely narrow view of what life is like outside the US.

[icewindandboringhorror]

It's always interesting to hear about people's weird/unexpected "alternate life paths". Like, something that you could have done with your life, a job you almost took, a school you almost went to, etc - that was still actually realistic enough that it could have happened, but NOW it seems to not suit your current personality.

Like for example, I currently hate advertising (how manipulative it is, brands trying to be 'relatable', social media amplifying it to an obnoxious extreme, etc.) so much that even seeing a little ad before a youtube video is grating to even witness, but there was a point in time where I was genuinely seriously considering going into marketing/making commercials as a career lol. Or like, I have a relative who was very inclined to be a pastor when they were younger, even though today they're a super strong atheist, etc. etc.

[honeyrosepetals]

abandoned dejarnette sanitarium

[gods-country024]

Mclean Hospital, Belmont Mass

i spent some time at this psych hospital in my teen years, it was super surreal coming back years later. this place was almost like a second home for a while. a lot of memories and friends were made at the units i was admitted to. i’ve long lost contact with most of them. i hope all those ppl are okay now, and are healing from their traumas 🫶🏼

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Sorrow (OC)