内容摘要：When asked if he still wanted to be with the Stars, and if he felt good about the chances of that happening, he answered yes to both.

When asked if he still wanted to be with the Stars, and if he felt good about the chances of that happening, he answered yes to both.

or skipped care completely. The facilityin 2014 after a decline in patients.

“Despite my ill feelings or experiences I had in that environment,” said Alma Jean Thomas Carney, who described the hospital’s white staff as unwelcoming, “you have indigent people living in Haywood County who need to get to the closest facility available.”It’s more common for people in rural areas to die earlier than urban residents from things like heart disease, cancer and stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But hospitals have closed throughout rural America in the last decade, leaving some of the 46 million people who live in these areas fewer options to getAdvocates, hospital and health clinic administrators and rural residents say changing disparities in

needs to start at the local level — especially in communities of color that may lack trust in the medical field.It’s already happening in Brownsville, where the hospital fully reopened in 2022;

who lack permanent legal status after their work hours; and in California, where

, who often work on farms or at meatpacking plants.If regular deworming, vaccinations and hygiene protocols are followed, pet owners are not at risk, he said.

Yousman zahoor poses for a photograph with her pet cat at her home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)Yousman zahoor poses for a photograph with her pet cat at her home in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Keeping cats, much like raising, is seen as a stress buster and mood elevator in a region long plagued by conflicts.