Hospital closures also mean longer ambulance rides for rural residents. Charlie Brunner, the fire chief in Jackson County in ...

Rural communities transform from medical research's forgotten citizens to active contributors to scientific advancement ...

The University of Florida’s new HealthScreen program will use mobile health vehicles to send community health workers and ...

This essay is the first in a 4-part series I’m calling Rural Health Resilience—a look at the state of rural health in America ...

According to the CDC, the all-cause mortality rate in 2014 in urban areas was 704.3 per 100,000 population, compared with 830.5 per 100,000 in rural areas, which comprise approximately 15% of the ...

Black and Native Americans in Florida have some of the worst health care outcomes in the U.S., ranking in the bottom fourth in a new analysis of health data from the Commonwealth Fund. In its ...

Closing the Connectivity Gap: A High-Impact Rural Health Care Broadband Program. Many of the recommendations outlined in the 2010 National Broadband Plan have not yet been implemented, ...

Millions of women lack access to maternity care 01:59. In Matthew Roach's two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its ...

"Bridging The Home-Based Primary Care Gap In Rural Areas", Health Affairs Forefront, February 7, 2024 . DOI: 10.1377/forefront.20240205.110720 Caption. 1101 Connecticut ...

A garbage bag hangs from a hospital sign along U.S. 17 in Williamston, N.C., on Thursday, April 11, 2024. As rural health care faces a workforce crisis, Paul Singh writes about one partnership in ...