With closures of rural hospitals like the one in Thomasville, some hospitals’ emergency rooms in urban areas of Alabama ...

Obstetrics-free hospital numbers rose from 35.2% to 42.4% between 2010 and 2022, with rural rates surpassing urban.

Rural hospitals across the country, many already struggling to stay afloat, could face devastating consequences if proposed ...

More information: Hugh Gravelle et al, Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients' welfare, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104064.

For a large number of Indiana’s rural residents, access to specialty care — specifically that for psychiatry and mental ...

An ongoing critical shortage of physicians in America’s rural areas requires innovative strategies to meet the healthcare ...

According to the Missouri Hospital Association, changes introduced in the U.S. Senate would harm Missouri’s financing ...

During the same period, 138 hospitals gained obstetric services, though they were disproportionately located in urban areas (n = 112) vs. rural areas (n = 26). In 2022, 52.4% of rural hospitals ...

While patients in urban areas typically travelled shorter distances to receive care because they could access a higher number of hospitals to get treatment, the average patient travelled 17.4 km.

Less than half of Missouri’s rural hospitals have labor and delivery departments, with two closing since 2020.

It's more common for people in rural areas to die earlier than urban residents from things like heart disease, cancer and stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But ...