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

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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.

Rural Americans are likelier to develop chronic pain than their urban counterparts, a grim trend exacerbated by limited ...

After years of trying to improve his hospital in Riverton, Wyoming—first as a doctor, then as a board member and volunteer ...