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

Nine months after Monroe County Hospital in rural South Alabama closed its labor and delivery department in October 2023, ...

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.

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

As labor shortages intensify, Unity Medical Center's CEO is leaning on early pipelines, staff flexibility, and lived ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...