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The Crisis in Rural America


The Crisis in Rural America - Annals of Emergency Medicine

Rural hospitals are closing at an unprecedented rate—and residents are dying for lack of access. Will policymakers step in?

AMA outlines 5 keys to fixing America's rural health crisis

The AMA has proposed five strategies the nation should take to improve rural health care access.

Saving Rural Hospitals: The Crisis in Rural Health Care

The primary cause of rural hospital closures is that payments from health insurance plans are adequate to sustain essential services in rural communities.

The Crisis in Rural America - Annals of Emergency Medicine

The Crisis in Rural America: Megan Hoffer, DO. Megan Hoffer, DO. Affiliations: George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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 ...

Health in Rural America - NIH News in Health

Studies have found that rural Americans are more likely to die prematurely from the leading causes of death in the US. These include heart disease, cancer, ...

Confronting Mental Health Challenges in Rural America | NAMI

There are stress factors unique to rural life that contribute to the mental health crisis in rural America, including a weakening agricultural ...

Rural Mental Health Crisis

Fear of negative judgment by family, friends, and community members for appearing weak or unable to deal with life's ups and downs is just one of the many ...

The Crisis in Rural Health Care - University of Kansas Medical Center

Rural areas in Kansas and across the country face many challenges to bettering the health of their communities, including higher percentages of uninsured people ...

Rural America Has Been Forgotten During the Coronavirus Crisis

This issue brief provides an update on the pandemic in rural counties, focusing on the spread of the virus and its impact on rural economies.

Rural America at a Glance: 2023 Edition - USDA ERS

The 2023 edition of Rural America at a Glance examines rural population and migration trends, poverty, housing insecurity, unemployment, and clean energy jobs.

The rural health care crisis is growing - WMAR

Since 2005, 192 hospitals have shut down in rural America, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North ...

The Crisis in Rural America - PubMed

The Crisis in Rural America · Authors · Affiliation. 1 George Washington University, Washington, DC. PMID ...

Rural America confronts a health care crisis - ABC News

"I would say it is probably the worst time for health care that we ever experienced," Joanne Conroy, the chief executive officer and president ...

Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in Rural Communities

Because rural communities face significant challenges in accessing mental health care, this course allows adults to acknowledge and begin to ...

An Early Grave: Crisis in Rural America | Scripps News Documentaries

Scripps News takes a deep dive into the growing mortality gap between Americans living in rural areas vs. cities.

The Hidden Crisis in Rural America: A Lack of Mental-Health Services

The paucity has resulted in a public-health crisis—rural Americans suffering from a psychiatric condition are more likely to encounter police ...

How a small Georgia town is feeling the rural health care crisis - NPR

That's a situation some of the 46 million Americans who live in rural areas could find themselves in, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Rural Housing | National Low Income Housing Coalition

Rural communities face unique challenges when dealing with the affordable housing crisis. Because development does not generally occur at a large scales in ...

The Hidden Crisis in Rural America - YouTube

It's prohibitively difficult to access mental health services in rural America. That's because, relative to urban areas, rural counties have ...