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How to Improve Health Care in Rural Areas - Tulane University

A medical professional conducts a telehealth visit with a patient. Over the past 17 years, 124 rural hospitals across the U.S. have closed their ...

Healthcare Access in Rural Communities Overview

Access to healthcare services is critical to good health, yet rural residents face a variety of access barriers. A 1993 National Academies ...

Why Health Care Is Harder to Access in Rural America | U.S. GAO

More than 60 million Americans—about one-fifth of the U.S. population—live in rural areas. On average, rural residents are older and ...

Ensuring Health Care Quality in Rural America | AHA News

The American Hospital Association recognizes the unique challenges faced by rural communities in accessing high-quality health care and continues to provide ...

Improving health in rural areas is within our collective reach

The death rate in rural America is 20% higher than in urban centers. The AMA is pursuing policies that can reduce rural health inequities ...

Improving Rural Health: State Policy Options for Increasing Access ...

Explore legislative trends, 50-state maps and state examples relating to health care coverage, rural health facilities and health care ...

Rural Health | CMS

CMS recognizes that more than 61 million Americans live in rural areas including rural, Tribal, frontier, and geographically isolated territories.

Rural Health Care in Action - NCBI

Rural health clinics receive certification from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) based in part on their location. These clinics, which receive ...

How can we improve health and health care in rural America?

We work to meet those challenges by documenting rural mortality rates across the country, tracking rural hospitals at risk for closure and studying the effects ...

Rural Health Care Affordability Issues - Commonwealth Fund

More than a third of rural Americans reported skipping needed care because of costs, twice the rate of rural residents in six of the other countries in our ...

About Rural Health - CDC

People who live in rural communities face numerous health disparities compared with their urban counterparts. Rural residents face higher ...

Rethinking Rural Health - AAMC Research and Action Institute

Have a similar number of visits to primary care physicians (3.1 vs. 3.7 average claims for Medicare beneficiaries). Have similar numbers of ...

The Biden-Harris Administration is taking actions to improve the ...

The Biden-Harris Administration is lowering health care costs for rural Americans and supporting access to high quality care in rural America.

Improving Health in Rural Communities - CMS

On behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Rural Health. Council, we are pleased to present the CMS Rural Health Fiscal Year 2021 Year.

What Works? Strategies to Improve Rural Health

This report outlines key steps toward building healthy communities along with some specific policies and programs that can improve health in rural areas.

Addressing Rural Health Challenges Head On - PMC

Providing health care to patients and families living in rural America presents significant challenges, but comes with unique rewards.

Rural Health Disparities Overview

Provides information on health disparities and the causes of these disparities in rural areas. Discusses rural versus urban mortality and life expectancy, ...

Addressing health inequities among people living in rural and ...

Health inequities experienced by rural populations result from adverse social and environmental determinants, as well as weaker health systems in rural areas.

Strengthening the Rural Health Workforce to Improve Health ... - HRSA

The Council on Graduate Medical Education (COGME) was authorized by Congress in 1986 to provide an ongoing assessment of physician workforce ...

Access to Health Services - Healthy People 2030 | odphp.health.gov

This summary will discuss barriers to health care such as lack of health insurance, poor access to transportation, and limited health care resources.