Host Sarah Jane Tribble checks in on Josh, the teenager who was coping with his aging grandparents and the emotional burden of his mother’s opioid death. Josh’s troubles began before Fort Scott’s hospital closed but worsened after. Sarah Jane g

Bonus

BONUS: Searching For The Nuns Who Ghosted Fort Scott

Jun 2nd, 2021 3m 25s

Host Sarah Jane Tribble sets out on a mission to understand the Sisters of Mercy, the nuns who founded Fort Scott’s Mercy Hospital. They were once prominent leaders of the community, but by the beginning of her reporting the nuns are gone. Sara

A True Relief – Chapter 7

Nov 10th, 2020 27m 43s

In Fort Scott, Kansas, the Community Health Center’s big green and white sign replaced Mercy Hospital’s name on the front of the town’s massive medical building. In the final chapter of Season One: No Mercy, we have an appointment to see what’s

What I Was Raised And Taught To Do – Chapter 6

Nov 3rd, 2020 28m 31s

Trickle-down heartache reaches the next generation in a rural town with no hospital. Meet Josh. He’s a teenager in Fort Scott, Kansas, who dropped out of high school around the same time Mercy Hospital closed. He says those two things are relat

Poppyseed Bread, Orange Glaze and Chemo – Chapter 5

Oct 27th, 2020 26m 55s

Sixty-five-year-old Karen Endicott-Coyan is living with a blood cancer and she needs frequent chemotherapy. Before Mercy Hospital closed, she got her cancer care right in town. These days getting to chemo means a long trek on rural roads and na

Dedicated to Suffering Humanity – Chapter 4

Oct 20th, 2020 26m 3s

For more than 100 years, Mercy Hospital — and the nuns who started it all — cared for local people in Fort Scott, Kansas. Town historian Fred Campbell says Mercy was part of the town’s DNA since its booming rail town days. But in recent years,

Tragedy Is Going to Happen – Chapter 3

Oct 13th, 2020 24m 1s

Emergency care gets complicated after a hospital closes. On a cold February evening, when Robert Findley falls and hits his head on a patch of ice and his wife, Linda, calls for 911, the delays that come next expose the frayed patchwork that so

The Good Captain – Chapter 2

Oct 6th, 2020 25m 37s

Closing a hospital hurts. In Fort Scott, Kansas, no one was a bigger symbol for that loss — or bigger target for the town’s anger — than hospital president Reta Baker. Reta was at the helm when the doors closed at Mercy Hospital, putting her at

It Is What It Is – Chapter 1

1 Sep 29th, 2020 24m 44s

Midwesterners aren’t known for complaining. But after Mercy Hospital Fort Scott closed, hardship trickled down to people whose lives were already hard. Pat Wheeler has emphysema. Her husband, Ralph, has end-stage kidney failure, and the couple

Trailer

Trailer | Where It Hurts, Season 1: No Mercy

Sep 1st, 2020 1m 47s

The story begins when Mercy Hospital Fort Scott shut its doors. Locals lost health care. Health workers lost jobs. Fort Scott’s sense of identity wavered.Season One is about what happened next — about the people who remain, surviving the best

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