Rural health care systems have been in crisis for decades, a situation that will become more dire when steep cuts to Medicaid ...

A new program touted to give $50 billion in federal funding to rural hospitals won’t necessarily keep rural hospitals from closing, according to several experts in rural health. The funding is part of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once CMS approves the budget, Missouri will still need legislative appropriation before the federal funds can be spent (Ariel ...

New analysis from Chartis warns that RHT dollars may be "too late" and ineffective for preventing further rural health erosion. America’s rural health safety net is in much deeper trouble than the ...

Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and ...

Microsoft’s Cybersecurity for Rural Hospitals Program plans to outfit nearly a third of all rural hospitals with cybersecurity tools. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) Even though IT solutions exist to ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, “Health Policy at a Crossroads,” produced with the support of the Commonwealth Fund and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

All 50 states across the U.S. submitted applications to the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The application process ...

States are beginning to allocate $50B in rural health funding. The question now: will people with intellectual and ...

Folks in this Mississippi River town hope a new federal program can revive the optimism engraved long ago in a plaque on the side of their hospital. “Dedicated to the Future of Health Care in the ...