The story begins when Mercy Hospital Fort Scott shut its doors. Locals lost health care. Health workers lost jobs. Fort Scott’s sense of identity wavered.

Season One is about what happened next — about the people who remain, surviving the best way they know how.

No Mercy: The hole left behind is bigger than a hospital.

Hosted by investigative journalist and Kansas native Sarah Jane Tribble, the podcast is a production of Kaiser Health News and St. Louis Public Radio.