Some rural hospitals are canceling or considering canceling their Medicare Advantage contracts, citing financial strain and ...

Rural Texans face many healthcare obstacles, including too few providers, too little insurance coverage and long distances to ...

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, according ...

Strengthening primary health care to serve as the first line of defense can dramatically change these outcomes, turning rural clinics into cancer prevention lifelines. The 4 E’s of strengthening ...

When Ted Matthews came out of retirement in early 2023 to retake the helm of the rural Texas hospital where he’d started his health care career, it was something of a rescue mission. They were ...

Providers in rural and underserved areas have come to rely on telehealth to expand access to neurology, behavioral health and other types of specialty care. It also has meant access to care after ...

leaving rural residents traveling farther for health care. Affordable housing is increasingly hard to find in rural communities, where pay is often lower and poverty higher than average.