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Martin County Gets Rural Emergency Hospital | Raleigh News
Martin County’s long wait for emergency care just got a major boost: the state’s pouring $40 million to reopen the shuttered Martin General campus as the nation’s first Rural Emergency Hospital — a new federal model designed to keep critical care alive in rural areas. ECU Health leads the charge, aiming to stabilize patients 24/7 and transfer them to other facilities, while also pushing for $15 million in expansion funding for their Beaufort County hospital to handle overflow. Though hurdles remain — staffing, renovations, policy tweaks — the community’s hopeful this could finally end the…
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