© 2017 Tracie Van Auken & Courtesy of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation There’s a thought experiment I want you to sit with for a moment. Let’s say you’re in Accident, Maryland — a real town in Garrett County, population just over 300. It’s a Tuesday evening. Someone in your household is having a medical emergency. You call 911 and an ambulance arrives. Then it drives 45 minutes to Garrett Regional Medical Center in Oakland, because that’s the only hospital in the county. Now imagine Garrett Regional closes. The next closest option is UPMC Western Maryland in Cumberland — another

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