The future of rural hospitals is the future of community

Dave Dillon is Vice President of Public and Media Relations at MIssouri Hospital Association. In this interview, he talks about why rural hospitals are so important to communities, and why they fail.
Dave Dillon is Vice President of Public and Media Relations. A St. Louis native, he chose to go to college in Fulton and has spent much of his career working on rural issues, partly with the MO Department of Agriculture. In this interview with Margot McMillen, Dillon talks about why rural hospitals are having such a hard time and what this means for rural communities. It's more than the health of the population: Employers and new residents look for health care when they choose a community.