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There was already a shortage of medical personnel in rural America before the coronavirus. Medical staffing firms are now trying to send health workers to underserved small towns.

Rural hospital closures are becoming more common, and that’s leading to longer response times for ambulances to reach the scene of an emergency,...

Rural Coloradans may have better access to psychiatric care soon.The United Health Foundation awarded a $1.5 million grant to the Colorado Center for…

The loss of the longtime hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., has forced a change in the way ER care is provided, including a greater reliance on air ambulances.

According to the Association of Air Medical Services, 35 air ambulance bases shut down across the U.S. in 2019. That includes 18 bases run by a…

A new poll from NPR, Harvard and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gives a glimpse into rural life in America today, finding that many people living in rural communities live on the edge financially.

Rural hospitals aren’t just providers of medicine and health care, but also are often major employers and a massive part of a town’s tax base. However,...

The American Hospital Association has released a new report on the state of rural hospitals across the country. There’s good and bad news about how the…