By Jaymie Baxley Dexter “Drew” Batts, the government manager for Martin County in eastern North Carolina, often thinks about the night his close childhood friend suffered a heart attack in 2025. The friend, a 39-year-old woman who was a member of Batts’ high school graduating class, lived just nine miles away from Martin General Hospital. Generations of local families in this rural, economically distressed community had relied on the hospital fo…
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