The national shortage of primary care physicians has been a concern for years, and a new study in the Annals of Family Medicine underscores how urgent the problem is and where the biggest pain point ...
The rural family physician workforce shrank 11% from 2017 to 2023, marking an ongoing shortage in primary care access, according to a study published in November in the Annals of Family Medicine. Lead ...
In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion rural health fund. But plans to spend those nine-digit ...
Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...
The scale of the problems facing rural America is daunting. This bipartisan commission wants to get to the bottom of them.
The United States is home to a vibrant mosaic of rural landscapes, lifestyles and people. But new research shows there is room for advertisers and media to tell a more complete and authentic story of ...
NEW ORLEANS, LA—Since 2013, the increase in cerebrovascular mortality occurring across the United States has been most pronounced in rural communities, a study shows. That increase comes amid a longer ...
When a 911 call comes in from the nursing home in Leonardville, Kansas (pop. 432), it is a half-hour drive to the only emergency room in Riley county, at Ascension Via Christi Hospital. The ride in ...
Small towns are in for a sobering stretch of economic challenges as elected officials reverse pandemic-era policies that had been reviving them. COVID-19 was a huge, unexpected opportunity for rural ...
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