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The Crisis in Rural Health Care


Rural Health Care Affordability Issues - Commonwealth Fund

In the U.S., people living in rural communities have higher rates of chronic disease and suicide, worse maternal health, and limited access to ...

Insight: Rural health care in crisis - The Portland Press Herald

Rural hospitals have struggled with financial troubles for years. · One of the first crucial steps is to ensure that trusted rural health care ...

Addressing Disparities in Rural Health Care

The challenges facing rural communities provide opportunities for innovation that often spread nationwide.

When the American Dream Becomes Survival | Blog - PBS

Acclaimed filmmaker Ramin Bahrani talks about how his short documentary If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis touches on themes ...

Health Wanted: Finding Care in Rural America - YouTube

Rural Americans are facing a health care crisis. The 1 in 5 Americans who live in rural areas get sicker and die sooner than people living ...

Rural health is in crisis – 5 creative ways the Biden administration ...

Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has many of them wondering whether rural health care systems will survive. Twenty percent of the U.S. population ...

Rural medical care in crisis - CBS News

Since 2010, 99 rural hospitals in the United States have closed, leaving residents in isolated communities without access to proper medical ...

Documentary shortlisted for Oscars explores rural healthcare crisis

For filmmaker Ramin Bahrani, the healthcare-related pressures experienced by people living in rural Appalachia were more than just the basis for ...

Improving health in rural areas is within our collective reach

Poorer health outcomes among rural residents are also tied to higher rates of tobacco use, obesity and hypertension. The ability to obtain care ...

Strong medicine is needed to solve America's rural health crisis | STAT

The health care situation in rural America has gotten worse since my childhood. Rural Americans face serious health disparities because of the ...

Rural health care: Big challenges require big solutions | AHA News

Many rural hospitals are struggling financially and a concerning number of them have already had to shut their doors.

Rural Emergency Health Care Grants - USDA Rural Development

American Rescue Plan Act The Rural Emergency Health Care Program is designed to help expand access to COVID-19 testing and vaccines, rural health care ...

If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis | Season 25 - PBS

If Dreams Were Lightning: Rural Healthcare Crisis ... Rural hospitals around America are closing at alarming rates, leaving communities without ...

Rural America's health crisis: Critical-access and safety-net hospitals

People living in rural areas are particularly susceptible to treatable illnesses like diabetes or depression. Rural populations are also older ...

How to Improve Health Care in Rural Areas - Tulane University

One of the biggest healthcare challenges rural residents face is the lack of reliable transportation. Residents in rural areas typically have to ...

AMA: Rural Health System 'Teetering on Brink' of Collapse - Medscape

Physicians are leaving healthcare in droves, "not because they don't want to practice…but because the system is making it more and more ...

In Rural America, The Pandemic Pummeled The Health Care System

One in four rural households report being unable to get medical care for serious problems, due to the pandemic, according to a new poll from ...

Confronting Rural America's Health Care Crisis

Offers policy recommendations to stabilize the rural healthcare infrastructure and ensuring local access to care.

Confronting the Rural Health Care Crisis in America

For 57 million people living in rural areas, access to quality health care has waned sharply in the past few decades.