Rural Health news and information

The GAO reported that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard payment system.
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Deano Thornton, CEO of Winn Community Health Center, a federally qualified healthcare center in the small city of Winnfield, La., knew the clinic would need the most up-to-date tools for reaching out to his underserved community and coordinating with the other community health clinics across the...
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Physician retention has been just as much an issue as getting physicians to make an initial commitment to rural life.
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The struggle to attract and keep rural physicians has grown so intense that many communities are now starting as early as early as their second year of residency to recruit new physicians. They often send potential recruits dozens of glossy brochures advertising a town's nature trails, festivals...
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Some small, rural healthcare organizations have become health information technology front-runners and their leaders techno mavens, despite the digital divide that separates the larger, urban health IT have-nows from the smaller, rural IT have-not-yets.
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Bisbee, Ariz., is a former mining town of about 6,700 people, some 12 miles north of the Mexican border. It's now known as an enclave of sorts for artists and hippies. But while it has attracted galleries and coffeehouses, it has struggled to find healthcare providers.
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After research released last month called into question the quality of some services provided at critical-access hospitals, these small and mostly rural facilities are lauding a new study that suggests their inpatient surgical mortality rates are on par with those of larger hospitals.
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Connecticut hospitals would win big under the CMS' latest update of its controversial rural-floor policy.
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A study that appeared last week documented a decade-long rise in 30-day mortality rates at critical-access hospitals, most of which are rural with fewer than 25 beds.
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