Producer/Director: Ken Verdoia

Frontier Code Blue examines a quiet crisis in health care in the nation's most isolated areas. In hundreds of rural towns in the Mountain West, health care systems are in danger of collapse. Critical shortages of trained medical personnel leave many communities without any form of emergency care. Rural hospitals are closing at the rate of one per month under the strain of expensive technology and the inability to recruit physicians. Whether they could afford the care or not, nearly one million residents of the rural Mountain West have no access to medical care...simply because it does not exist. 58:00 minutes.