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5:33 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.” Masisak lives in Lewis Run, a borough seven miles south of Bradford, where the Bradford Regional Medical Center is about to lose even more services, including departments for acute care and surgery. ....