• It Is What It Is – Chapter 1

  • Sep 29 2020
  • Length: 25 mins
  • Podcast

It Is What It Is – Chapter 1

  • Summary

  • Midwesterners aren’t known for complaining. But after Mercy Hospital Fort Scott closed, hardship trickled down to people whose lives were already hard. Pat Wheeler has emphysema. Her husband, Ralph, has end-stage kidney failure, and the couple are barely making ends meet as they raise their teenage grandson. Pat is angry with hospital executives who she said yanked a lifeline from residents. “They took more than a hospital from us,” she said.
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