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The story of a poor North Carolina county with two doctors and a shuttered health clinic

By Leoneda Inge
One of the busiest free clinics in the state of North Carolina closed its doors in 2016. A reporter decided to find out what that meant for the health of the county's disproportionately poor residents.
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When a rural North Carolina health clinic closes, patients and doctors feel the squeeze

By Leoneda Inge
This report was produced as a project for the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism, a program of the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.  Other stories in the series include: What happens after a rural North Carolina health clinic closes?
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What happens after a rural North Carolina health clinic closes?

By Leoneda Inge
The closure was a big blow for Warren County, an area of the state considered a primary care desert, where doctors are few and patients are often forced to go without health care.

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