Arlington News

The closing recently of Calhoun Memorial Hospital in tiny Arlington, Ga., comes not just as another body blow to health and healthcare in impoverished areas of rural Georgia -- but as a dagger to the heart of hopes for any kind of economic development or improvement.

As we told you in a breaking news alert, the Arlington hospital shut down Friday afternoon, unable to get out of debt.

That news comes as more than two dozen people lost their jobs at a small hospital struggling to deal with rising health care costs.

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