The $50 billion Transformation Fund will support rural hospitals, but can't rescue them, executives argued at a Newsweek ...
Caregivers living in rural areas reported poorer general and physical health and were more likely to smoke and have obesity than caregivers in urban areas, according to a recent analysis. Researchers ...
Next month, applications are set to open for the new $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, according to comments from CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. However, just weeks away from the ...
Rural communities in the United States face a dire health crisis that threatens the population's well-being, says the American College of Physicians, in a new policy published today in the Annals of ...
TYRONE -- In rural Pennsylvania, there is about one primary care physician for every 522 residents, compared to the state's urban areas where that ratio is about one physician for every 222 residents, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This essay is the first in a four-part series I’m calling Rural Health ...
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This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Wyoming officials say they have a plan to make five years of upcoming grants from a new $50 billion federal rural health program last “forever.” ...
In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unveiled its Rural Public Health Strategic Plan, which outlines the priorities, objectives and outcomes the agency hopes to see over ...
With $50 billion set to flow to states over the next five years, CMS’ new Rural Health Transformation Program represents one of the largest federal investments in rural healthcare in decades. However, ...
North Dakota rural health faces at least four major challenges, according to Brad Gibbens, deputy director of the University of North Dakota School of Medicine Center for Rural Health. Gibbens has ...