MEXICO, Mo. When the new corporate owners of two rural hospitals suddenly announced they would stop admitting patients one Friday in March, Kayla Schudel, a nurse, stood resolute in the nearly empty lobby of Audrain Community Hospital: “You’ll be seen; the ER is open.” The hospital with 40 beds and five clinics
Noble Health swept into two small Missouri towns promising to save their hospitals. Within 2 years after taking millions in federal COVID relief and big administrative fees it locked the doors.