ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 9月6日 01時53分

Maria Pascual’s 5-month-old daughter, Juana, was born with severe brain damage. Maria relies on an ambulance to get Juana to her doctor’s appointments from their home in Immokalee, about 40 miles from Naples, Florida. But the vehicles are sometimes busy shuttling emergency patients to hospitals miles away. Juana — photographed here by @eve_edelheit — has already missed 2 appointments this summer. One day, her pulse shot up to 220 beats per minute and she ran a 104-degree fever. The ambulance came quickly, but soon broke down. This rural stretch of Collier County has fewer hospital beds per person than Afghanistan, according to Beau Braden. He moved to the area to start a small hospital to serve its 50,000 residents. But this summer, a larger hospital in Naples derailed those plans by asking the state to deny the proposal, saying that the small hospital would siphon away patients and revenue. Rural communities across the U.S. are suffering the effects of hospital closures — and as Dr. Braden learned, the challenges to opening a small hospital can be enormous. “You keep asking yourself, Is this true? Is this America?” he said. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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