In rural America, patients are waiting for care — sometimes with deadly consequences

Hospital staff at Gritman Medical Center in the northern Idaho city of Moscow were unable to find Katie Ripley an open ICU bed at a larger hospital as her condition deteriorated.

When cancer survivor Katie Ripley got pneumonia, the 25-bed hospital in her small town didn’t have the specialized care she needed. But with omicron surging, there was no ICU bed to transfer her to.

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