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In this April 25, 2014 photo, a pedestrian passes the closed emergency room of Flint River Community Hospital in Montezuma, Ga. Flint River Hospital had for years reported it was saddled with unpaid bills and underpaid by government-run insurance programs for the poor and elderly. Alarmed by hospital closures, health officials in Georgia are changing rules to let stressed rural hospitals become expanded emergency rooms that can also handle routine childbirths or outpatient surgery. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this April 25, 2014 photo, a faint marking for what used to be a designated ambulance parking spot sits on the pavement outside the now closed emergency room of Flint River Community Hospital, in Montezuma, Ga. In a major problem for a hospital, 63 percent of residents in the county had no insurance or relied on government-provided insurance for the poor, which health care providers say pays less than private plans. Alarmed by hospital closures, health officials in Georgia are changing rules to let stressed rural hospitals become expanded emergency rooms that can also handle routine childbirths or outpatient surgery. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this April 25, 2014 photo, a sign points the way to Flint River Hospital which closed its emergency room last year, in Montezuma, Ga. Residents must now drive 20 or 30 miles on slow country roads to the nearest hospital. Alarmed by hospital closures, health officials in Georgia are changing rules to let stressed rural hospitals become expanded emergency rooms that can also handle routine childbirths or outpatient surgery. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this April 25, 2014 photo, a pedestrian crosses South Dooly Street in the main business section of Montezuma, Ga., which up until last year housed the only emergency room in the county. Having an emergency room helped bring a manufacturer to the job-starved county in 2006. The head of the county’s development authority, Jimmy Davis, worries what will happen the next time a potential employer asks whether there’s a nearby emergency room. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this April 25, 2014 photo, Gary Roberts, left, cuts the hair of Charles Allen, both lifelong residents, in his barber shop in Montezuma, Ga. Roberts once worked at the now closed Flint River Hospital. Alarmed by hospital closures, health officials in Georgia are changing rules to let stressed rural hospitals become expanded emergency rooms that can also handle routine childbirths or outpatient surgery. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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In this April 25, 2014 photo, the emergency room of Flint River Community Hospital sits closed in Montezuma, Ga. Analysts say that rural hospitals are struggling nationally because they typically serve small populations of customers more likely to be older, uninsured or enrolled in government health care programs that do not fully pay their bills. Alarmed by hospital closures, health officials in Georgia are changing rules to let stressed rural hospitals become expanded emergency rooms that can also handle routine childbirths or outpatient surgery. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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FILE - In this April 3, 2008 file photo, the sun shines on a radioactive hazard warning sign at a landfill used to bury hazardous materials at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. The cleanup of the nation’s largest collection of radioactive waste left over from the production of nuclear weapons was supposed to be nearing an end by now, but 25 years after a landmark agreement was signed to deal with the waste, $30 billion has been spent, and officials are still decades and tens of billions of dollars away from finishing the cleanup of the radioactive mess. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)
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Doug Purcell, former executive director of the Historic Chattahoochee Commission, discusses his opposition to a plan to widen the highway through the historic district in Eufaula, Ala., on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. While backers say the project would relieve traffic congestion caused by tourists, Purcell fears the work would kill trees and damage the Old South charm of the riverside town. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)
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FILE - In this July 12, 2013 file photo provided by the Michigan City Fire Department, rescue equipment lays on a huge sand dune known as Mt. Baldy where a 6-year-old boy was buried alive in a hole that opened up at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan City, Ind. The dune that draws thousands of visitors each year will stay closed for 2014 and possibly longer as scientists work to determine what may have caused the hole. (AP Photo/Michigan City Fire Department via the News Dispatch, File)
