AdvertisementRural Areas Send Their Sickest Patients To The Cities, Straining Hospital CapacityNovember 23, 2020Alex SmithfacebookEmailSaint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City is one of the 18 hospitals in the Saint Luke's Health System. Two-thirds of the COVID-19 patients transferred to Saint Luke's from rural areas need intensive care. "We get the sickest of the sick," says Dr. Marc Larsen. (Carlos Moreno/KCUR)