{"podcast":{"title":"Marketplace Morning Report","slug":"marketplace-morning-report-479901","podcast_index_feed_id":479901,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/marketplace-morning-report","website_url":"https://www.marketplace.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/48bb35ce89047b6e421303a4e0b6f81a39dded13/square/587d1f-20250303-marketplace-morning-report-podcast-2000.jpg","author":"Marketplace","episode_count":50,"summary":"Get up to speed on the news each morning with our daily radio show and podcast, “Marketplace Morning Report,” hosted by Kimberly Adams. We give you the economy without the anxiety, in the amount of time it takes to brew a cup of coffee. Start your day with us, on air or by downloading our podcast, for context and perspective on the economic news that matters to you.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T04:20:42.636388+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-morning-report-479901"},"episode":{"title":"What the rural healthcare crisis looks like in Alabama","slug":"what-the-rural-healthcare-crisis-looks-like-in-alabama","published_at":"2026-06-08T12:35:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-morning-report-479901/what-the-rural-healthcare-crisis-looks-like-in-alabama","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-morning-report-479901","url":"https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2026/06/08/what-the-rural-health-care-crisis-looks-like-in-one-alabama-town","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/marketplace/morning_report/2026/06/08/mmr_20260608_MMR_Podcast_2_64.mp3?awCollectionId=mkp-MMR&awEpisodeId=01KTKH2PMECVTYSZMYQV5DK5T2","summary":"There are about 700 hospitals at risk of closure across rural communities in the U.S. Financial headwinds are mounting, with disappearing federal subsidies and cuts to Medicaid. Alabama is a state familiar with hospital closures and at risk for more. This morning, host Kimberly Adams visits Thomasville Regional Medical Center, a hospital that looks frozen in time but has been closed for almost two years, to learn what happens to a community's economy and access to healthcare when vital resources disappear.","meta_description":"There are about 700 hospitals at risk of closure across rural communities in the U.S. Financial headwinds are mounting, with disappearing federal subsidie…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":401,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/marketplace-morning-report-479901/episodes/what-the-rural-healthcare-crisis-looks-like-in-alabama/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/marketplace-morning-report-479901/what-the-rural-healthcare-crisis-looks-like-in-alabama.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}