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Slight Medicare boost helps rural hospitals survive, grow

By Debra Pressey
Sunday April 15, 2007

Robin Scholz

CT scan/MRI technician Laura Augsburger of Forrest, right, works with tech Dana Gibbens of Saybrook as a patient has an MRI at Gibson Area Hospital.

If you'd rather be alone when you're sick, Paris Community Hospital can now accommodate you with its all new single-patient rooms that came with an $11 million remodeling job.

New construction also has been going on at the hospital in Gibson City, where a $7 million emergency department just opened.

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