Farm and Fiddle

Dave Dillon is Vice President of Public and Media Relations at MIssouri Hospital Association. In this interview, he talks about why rural hospitals are so important to communities, and why they fail.

Show Notes

Dave Dillon is Vice President of Public and Media Relations. A St. Louis native, he chose to go to college in Fulton and has spent much of his career working on rural issues, partly with the MO Department of Agriculture. In this interview with Margot McMillen, Dillon talks about why rural hospitals are having such a hard time and what this means for rural communities. It's more than the health of the population: Employers and new residents look for health care when they choose a community. 

What is Farm and Fiddle?

Farm and Fiddle is the world's oldest radio program covering sustainable agriculture and local food systems. We air every Wednesday evening from 7 to 8 p.m. central time, from KOPN 89.5 fm, Columbia, Missouri. We speak to the best experts in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, animal husbandry, and cover topics like how to resist factory farms in the neighborhood and what to do if your crop is knocked out by too much or too little rain, or by a neighbor's sloppy poison application.