Committee members from various parts of the state acknowledged the challenge of bringing and keeping health care in rural ...

According to a Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform report, 756 hospitals in the rural United States are at risk ...

Missouri will receive more than $216 million under a sweeping federal rural health initiative, a substantial investment aimed at stabilizing and modernizing care in rural communities.

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

A month-long rotation program gives residents experience in what it is like to live and work in a rural community. Sanford Health and Hennepin Healthcare have established a rural rotation program to ...

The Rural Health Transformation Program proposes using $50 billion to help states offset the loss of rural facilities like McNairy Regional Hospital in Selmer, Tennessee, which closed in 2016. Credit: ...

Folks in this Mississippi River town hope a new federal program can revive the optimism engraved long ago in a plaque on the side of their hospital. “Dedicated to the Future of Health Care in the ...

Sources: USAC ACP Enrollment and Claims Tracker; household counts and 200% poverty estimates from the 2017-2022 American Community Survey; state-level ACP participation factors from Galperin (2021).