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Dani Anguiano in Willows

Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it’

Glenn Medical Center in Willows, California.
Glenn Medical Center in Willows, California. Photograph: Courtesy Glenn Medical Center

For the better part of a century, Glenn Medical center dealt with all kinds of injuries, ailments and emergencies in the far northern reaches of California’s Sacramento valley – heart attacks, car collisions and even plane crashes.

The only hospital in this agricultural county, not far from the rice fields and almond orchards, many of the area’s 28,000 residents have a story about how the hospital saved them, or a loved one, said Lauren Still, the medical center’s chief administrative officer.

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