Small-town hospitals offer big-city services

Less expensive equipment and partnerships with larger facilities are allowing smaller community hospitals to offer treatments once limited to the big city. But city hospitals may suffer as significant numbers of patients decide to stick closer to home. This story in The Flint Journal of Flint, MI analyzes the impact on larger providers as services like radiation therapy, angioplasty and cardiac rehab move out into rural areas. Patients sometimes drive an hour or more each way to go to daily radiation treatments in Flint, but outlying Lapeer Regional Medical Center is building a $5.5 million cancer center to save them the trip.

- check out The Flint Journal's report

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