KFF’s Kaiser Health News and Gray
Television Partner to Examine the Drive Times and Roadblocks for Stroke
Victims in Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta
KHN
and Gray Television’s InvestigateTV team joined forces to dig into the
underlying reasons why strokes are a deadlier threat across most counties
in Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, rural regions that are
characterized by high rates of poverty, vulnerable elderly populations, a
shortage of medical providers and an epidemic of local hospital closures.
They found that large
shares of the regions’ residents live more than 45 minutes from a
hospital that is stroke-certified and able to provide the most advanced
care. Routing patients from rural areas to the right level of care can be
an intricate jigsaw puzzle. The closest hospital may not offer the full
scope of stroke treatments, but hospitals with more advanced care could
be hours away.
KHN and InvestigateTV
teamed up on the story as part of Gray’s year-long effort — Bridging
the Great Health Divide, which spotlights health issues that
have historically plagued rural parts of Appalachia and the Delta.
The InvestigateTV story
aired this week on 32 Gray stations in the Appalachian and Delta regions.
A companion digital story appears on KHN.org,
InvestigateTV.com
and all Gray websites. KHN has plans to expand its reporting in the South
and on rural health issues, and expects to partner with InvestigateTV on
more stories in the coming months.
About KFF and KHN
KHN
(Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that produces in-depth
journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and
Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF
(Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization
providing information on health issues to the nation. Recent KHN
investigations include a deep dive on the nation’s public health
infrastructure, a year-long project examining health care worker deaths
during the pandemic, and an ongoing crowd-sourced investigation into
medical billing practices. For all recent KHN investigations, see https://khn.org/news/tag/investigation/.
About Gray Television
and InvestigateTV
Gray
Television is a leading media company that owns and operates
high-quality stations in 94 television markets. InvestigateTV
is Gray Television’s national investigative team, delivering original,
in-depth reporting for Gray stations from award-winning journalists around
the U.S.
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