rural health care

Taxpayer-funded Essential Air Service ensures people in remote communities can get to family engagements and medical appointments.

Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places.

Experts say community paramedicine programs, which involve paramedics checking in on people with known health issues before an emergency happens, can cut costs and ease strains on health care systems in rural areas.

A new federal program is dropping rural hospitals a lifeline to keep emergency services available as they struggle to turn a profit.

The pandemic changed tech and personnel matters, says surgeon Eric Henderson. But the empathy required and the lovely setting remain the same.

For rural communities, a key question: Can a new company that is taking over ownership restore confidence in the care the local hospital provides?

An uptick in vaccination rates in the rural United States corresponds with rising COVID-19 infections and a slimming number of ICU beds.

Dollar General, with more than 17,000 stores, is moving into health care. Many rural communities have lost hospitals in recent years.

In America, around 28% of doctors, 35% of home aides and 20% of nursing assistants are foreign born.