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)
January 27, 2023
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Wave of rural nursing home closures grows
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.