This small-town Ohio hospital sued 2,700 patients in two years for unpaid medical bills

This small-town Ohio hospital sued 2,700 patients in two years for unpaid medical bills

Mary Rutan Hospital, in Bellefontaine, Ohio. (Photo by Jake Zuckerman, Signal Ohio.)This story was originally published by Signal Ohio. BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio – One by one, Mary Rutan Hospital’s former patients, some wearing bandages or warning that their replacement knee might set off the metal detector, shuffled into an unassuming municipal courthouse on the edge of downtown. The people who showed up to Bellefontaine Municipal Court on a recent T…