A Hospital In Rural Colorado Is The Cornerstone Of Small Town Life
“There’s something else you’ll find in Hugo: one regional hospital. Town residents are very proud of their hospital, but changes to the Affordable Care Act could reduce its funding and force it to cut back services. From the outside, Lincoln Community Hospital looks more like a small 1960s-era apartment building. But it has all the essential high-tech health care equipment: modern imaging machines, tele-medicine links — even an AirLife helicopter. Rachel Smith, the assistant director of nursing, says the thing that really sets the hospital apart is the quality of its care. ‘It’s definitely not treat ’em and street ’em,’ Smith says. ‘It’s definitely somebody you’re going to see — maybe even later that day, later that week.'”