Band-Aid Care: When Keeping Rural People Healthy Requires Creative Solutions (Series, Part 3 of 6 with Barn Raiser)

Citation: Sangaramoorthy, Thurka. “Band-Aid Care: When Keeping Rural People Healthy Requires Creative Solutions.” Barn Raiser, August 21, 2025. https://barnraisingmedia.com/band-aid-care-when-keeping-rural-people-healthy-requires-creative-solutions/.

Excerpt: “This is the reality of rural health care: providers and patients must create makeshift solutions to navigate systems that weren’t designed for their circumstances. On Maryland’s Eastern Shore and across rural America, both health care workers and immigrants have developed what I call “Band-Aid care”—temporary, improvised responses to permanent, structural problems.”