Lebanon, N.H.-based Dartmouth Health has received an $11.8 million federal grant to establish the Center for Aging with Serious Illness, a multidisciplinary research program focused on older adults with serious illness. The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of…
Finance & Funding
The Health Resources and Services Administration has opened applications for nearly $140 million in new grant funding aimed at expanding healthcare access and strengthening rural health systems. The funding, announced June 29, will support rural hospitals, telehealth, physician workforce development,…
As CMS begins distributing first-year awards from the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, three healthcare leaders gathered at the inaugural Becker’s Rural Healthcare Summit on June 12 and offered sharply divergent views on whether federal investment can fix what…
Less than half of rural hospitals in the U.S. still offer labor and delivery services, and researchers warn the situation will worsen unless commercial payers, Medicaid programs and employers change how they pay for maternity care. A June 8 report…
The New Mexico Health Care Authority announced a $76.2 million federal funding opportunity through Healthy Horizons, a component of the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program, to expand specialty, maternal, behavioral health and chronic disease care. The Santa Fe-based authority said…
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Cottage Hospital in Woodsville, N.H., was facing a negative 16% margin less than a year ago — and Holly McCormack, the hospital’s president and CEO, knew the math wasn’t going to fix itself. Travel staff costs had ballooned into the…
Indiana secured federal approval to update its hospital assessment fee and state-directed payment programs, according to a May 15 news release. Under the reforms, hospital assessments are maximized at the 6% federal limit, and assessments are based on net patient…
Norwood, Colo.-based Uncompahgre Medical Center sits in a service area roughly the size of Delaware on Colorado’s Western Slope — a region so sparsely populated that it qualifies as rural and frontier, with about seven people per square mile. As…
The deadline is not here yet, but the bill is already coming due. HR 1‘s most consequential Medicaid changes, work requirements for able-bodied recipients and tighter rules on state financing mechanisms, do not fully take effect until 2027. But hospitals…
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., have introduced a bill that would extend the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program for an additional five years. The program allows rural hospitals with fewer than 51 beds that don’t qualify…