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Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies
Arielle Zionts WINNER, S.D. — Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at…
Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Limbo
Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News Uncertainty around federal efforts to expand high-speed internet — and…
Covid Worsened Shortages of Doctors and Nurses. Five Years On, Rural Hospitals Still Struggle.
Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. The…
In Rural Massachusetts, Patients and Physicians Weigh Trade-Offs of Concierge Medicine
Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city two hours west…
Some Rural Hospitals Ditch Medicare Advantage
Arielle Zionts Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business…
Rural Hospitals Question Whether They Can Afford Medicare Advantage Contracts
Rural hospital leaders are questioning whether they can continue to afford to do business with Medicare…