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Charts at UNT Health Science Center s Human Movement Performance Lab.
Every week, KERA explores the latest in health, science and technology in North Texas through two main series, Vital Signs and Breakthroughs.
Vital Signs
In Vital Signs, Sam Baker taps into the expertise of local health care leaders to provide insight into your everyday health and well-being.
Breakthroughs
In Breakthroughs, KERA reporters delve into the latest health-related technologies developed in North Texas and across the state. From the Zika virus to fried chicken, no scientific topic is off limits.
Learn more in-depth multimedia projects: Surviving Ebola, a look at how Ebola made its way to Dallas and the lessons local hospitals and governments learned; Growing Up After Cancer, the journey of one North Texas boy with cancer; and The Broken Hip, an in-depth look at how a fall can change everything.
Credit Stephanie Kuo / KERA News
Charts at UNT Health Science Center s Human Movement Performance Lab.
Every week, KERA explores the latest in health, science and technology in North Texas through two main series, Vital Signs and Breakthroughs.
Vital Signs
In Vital Signs, Sam Baker taps into the expertise of local health care leaders to provide insight into your everyday health and well-being.
Breakthroughs
In Breakthroughs, KERA reporters delve into the latest health-related technologies developed in North Texas and across the state. From the Zika virus to fried chicken, no scientific topic is off limits.
Learn more in-depth multimedia projects: Surviving Ebola, a look at how Ebola made its way to Dallas and the lessons local hospitals and governments learned; Growing Up After Cancer, the journey of one North Texas boy with cancer; and The Broken Hip, an in-depth look at how a fall can change everything.
Texans in rural communities are facing an ongoing crisis as hospitals and medical facilities shutter. An analysis by the American Public Media Research Lab data shows that since 2005, 24 rural hospitals have closed in the state, which is the highest number of closures in the country.
Tucked away in the back of Van Zandt Regional Hospital, a small East Texas hospital, is a quaint makeshift bedroom that is reminiscent of a nun’s quarters.
A desk lamp illuminates the extra-long twin-sized hospital bed with the white sheets neatly pulled tight over the mattress. Hats are strewn about the large wooden vanity in the room, and a Bible is placed beside the window, with pages fanning out from its daily use.
These are the temporary living quarters for the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer, Randy Lindauer. The unassuming, Indiana-native has worked his way across the country, resuscitating rural hospitals in Kansas, Florida, West Virginia and Indiana all of which are still up and running. Van Zandt Regional Hospital in Grand Saline, TX is his most recent project.
When word of the novel coronavirus spread through the U.S. a year ago this month, various Native American tribes closed their borders to outsiders in an effort to keep the pandemic at bay. On the Pine.