Clinic closing a sign of tough times at AMH

It's no secret that Auburn Memorial Hospital has been struggling financially, and that its administration has been making some painful changes in an effort to create stability.

We have no reason to doubt the hospital#'s sincerity when it says financial pressures made the shutdown of the Scipio Center clinic necessary. That reflects the sad reality in rural healthcare throughout the nation.

But this is a clinic that has operated for nearly a decade. That#'s a lot of families who have come to depend upon that office in that location.