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Bradford Regional Medical Center will relocate its acute care and surgical department to its sister hospital in upstate New York in May, leaving only 10 inpatient beds to serve the city of 8,000. (Emily Reddy/WPSU)
Kathy Masisak, 68, doesn’t want to live in a community without robust medical care. But her local hospital in rural McKean County has been downsizing for years, and she said it’s affecting her family.
“They took a maternity ward away last year, and my granddaughter had to go to Olean — which is 35, 40 minutes away — in an emergency situation to deliver that baby,” Masisak said. “I was panicking the whole time going over there to see her.”