Rural Washington hospitals brace for fallout from Medicaid cuts

Rural Washington hospitals brace for fallout from Medicaid cuts

This article originally appeared in The Spokesman-Review.If the hospital in the historic southeast Washington town of Dayton has to close, Acadia Murphey thinks the town will “probably die along with it.”Murphey’s health hasn’t been the same since surviving thyroid cancer in 2007, and she visits Dayton General Hospital for physical therapy twice a week from her home 20 miles away.Diseases like fibromyalgia, endometriosis and Crohn’s disease flar…