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Nancy Dickey

Nancy Dickey is a professor and executive director of the Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Initiative.

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Environment & Health

Rural Hospital Closings Are Leaving Millions of People in a Health Care Crisis

Closures have accelerated in recent years, leaving not only sick people but ghost towns in their wake.

By: Jane Bolin ,; Bree Watzak ,; Nancy Dickey ,; TheConversation

October 5, 2019