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Close the Pine Ridge gap: Miles and medicine
Some 650 miles to our west, just a day’s drive, the people living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation struggle with healthcare access that their counterparts in La Crosse take for granted. Isolated and sparsely populated, the South Dakota reservation is vast—3,500 square miles—with painful statistics revealing it as the poorest place per capita in the country.
Gundersen Medical Foun ...