CARBONDALE — As rural healthcare providers face increasing challenges, representatives from several different organizations gathered this week for a roundtable to address the most pressing issues. Here's more on the roundtable, as previously touched on in Thursday's edition of The Southern.

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton led Wednesday's roundtable discussion at SIU Family Medicine. She began with asking attendees about their most urgent needs.

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