“I know we all have to die, but it seems like since the hospital closed, there’s a lot more people dying,” Linda Gibson, a lifelong resident of Williamston, North Carolina, said on a recent ...

Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind.

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Jersey Mikes and Maynard Children’s Hospital are joining forces once again for their annual Day of Giving.

WILLIAMSTON — A tattered sign blows in the wind at the chained-off entrance of Martin General Hospital. The hospital and its emergency department are closed, the bolded black letters on the sign ...

WILLIAMSTON — A tattered sign blows in the wind at the chained-off entrance of Martin General Hospital. The hospital and its emergency department are closed, the bolded black letters on the sign ...

Responding to them in rural areas already presents unique challenges: weather, terrain, and available resources. Take away an area’s sole hospital and the ripple effects of a lack of care will ...