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Capital B: Healing a Dark Past
The Long Road to Reopening Hospitals in the Rural South
From 1990 to 2020, 334 rural hospitals have closed across 47 states, which disproportionately affect areas with higher populations of Black and Hispanic people. Since 2011, hospital closures have outnumbered new hospital openings. In Brownsville, they’ve been able to do the impossible: reopen a full-service hospital. They’re not the only ones.
Aallyah Wright
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July 10, 2024
Alma Jean Carney-Thomas, a local historian, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur who brought the first health clinic to Haywood County, stands inside the Dunbar Carver Museum in Brownsville, Tenn., on July 10, 2024.
Ariel J Cobbert
