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Long Drives, Longer Waits: A Look Inside the Desert’s Health-Care Shortage

Heather Rogers, a single mom of three who lives in Yucca Valley, said she needs to head to Victorville or the Coachella Valley to find an ear, nose and throat doctor for one of her children. Photo by Natalie Raymond Heather Rogers’ oldest child had a stomachache on his 13th birthday. He went to school and came home with the same complaint. When he started vomiting, she took him to the local emergency room—where an MRI showed appendicitis. The Yu…
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Coachella Valley Independent broke the news on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.
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