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8/6/2019 WNC Faces Doctor Shortage
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A GANNETT NEWSPAPER | VOL . 141 |NO. 269 | 92 pages | © 2010
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CLASSIFIEDS G1-6
LIVING, ARTS D1-8LOTTERIES B1
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High 66, L o w 57Weather , C10
Forecast SUSANREINHARDT: Mon-tr eat College pr ofes-sor Paul Owen has
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At an age when she should be looking forward to re-tirement and spending time with her grandchildren,Dr. Katy Lynch is seeingpatients60 hours a weekand slogging through hours of paperwork.
Lynch turned 65 this year and wouldlike to step back f rom her job as a f ami-
ly practice doctor at the TallulahHealth Center inR obbinsville. Butas one of onlythree physi-cians in Gra-ham Coun-ty, that maynot hap-pen any-time soon.
“I can’tdo this too much longer,”Lynch said. But, “I can’tretire realistically with-out being able to replacemyself.”
Graham County’s diffi-culties lie partly in being f arf rom city amenities and in an
area unable to offer competitivesalaries.
But the county is hardly alone asWestern North Carolina deals with a
Problem could w orsen w it hout syst emic cha nges
Please see SHORTAGE on A 7
B y Nanci Bompe y NBOMPEY@CITIZEN - TIMES.COM
On A 3: Healt h car e poll
On A 7: Academic medical campus Doct ors in WNC Healt h car e r efor m
Katy L y nch
A major storm system is expectedto inundate Western North Carolinawith heavy rain today through Tues-day.
The National Weather Service i spredicting 6-7 inches in the Ashe-ville area through Tuesday, andsome flooding is likely if that muchrain f alls. A flood watch or warningwill likely be posted today.
“The bulk of the rain should be(today) through early Monday,” Na-tional Weather Services Meteorolo-gist Jeffery Taylor said.
The rain started to f all Saturdayaf ternoonin WNCas a coldf ront ap-proached. Mountainous areas nearthe Tennessee border could see 5-7inches of rain and some isolated
areas could receive up to 9 inches bythe time the storm exits the areaTuesday.
A low is forming over South Car-olina and Georgia and drawingmoisture out of the Gulf of Mexicoand the Atlantic, Taylor said. The
Flooding ra insforeca st for WNCU p t o 7 inches ca lledfor, cooler t emps t ooB y James Shea
JSHEA@CITIZEN- TIMES.COM
Please see WNC on A 8
It’s called “summer melt,” andMars Hill College President DanLunsford has experienced the phe-nomenon first hand.
The small, private school has tak-en in increasing numbers of applica-tions and sent out more acceptanceletters over the past two years, onlyto see those gains dwindle as parentsfind themselves unable to m eetcosts.
“There is a lot of anxiety, in gen-
eral, over the larger economy,” Luns-ford said. “We are not immune f romthat.”
Private colleges and universitiessince the economy tanked have seendonations decline, endowments re-duced in value and students reluc-tant to pay more than what it wouldcost to attend a public college.
Dana College in Nebraska closedlast summer, and Lambuth College
Pri v a t ecolleges
suffer w i t heconom y
Please see COLLEGES on A 6
B y James Shea JSHEA@CITIZEN- TIMES.COM
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