Wave of rural nursing home closures grows
Marjorie Kruger visits with son Dan White in her new room at the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society nursing home in Waukon, Iowa. Kruger transferred to the Waukon facility in September 2022, because Good Samaritan was closing its Postville, Iowa, home, where she lived for six years. (Tony Leys/KHN)
WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for six years.
The Good Samaritan Society facility in Postville, Iowa, would close, administrators told Kruger and 38 other residents in September...
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