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 ...

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 ...

A new study by VA Health Care shows a difference in what veterans are prescribed for pain. Researchers with the VA say ...

For people in rural areas, layoffs have already impacted health care. And proposed federal funding cuts might have an even greater impact. That’s because many rural communities rely on federal ...

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.