Rural Health

In today’s healthcare environment, technology has become central to delivering high-quality patient care. It influences access, financial sustainability, workforce capacity, regulatory compliance and organizational resilience. That reality is becoming even more apparent as federal policymakers increase their focus on both…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is sending $93.3 million to Georgia through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program to expand telehealth services, advance surgical robotics and modernize rural healthcare access statewide. The funding, according to an Aug. 27…

In an August 17 Becker’s editorial, Bill Bruce, representing the nurse anesthetist trade association, argued that a governor’s decision to exempt a state from Medicare’s physician-supervision requirement for nurse anesthetists — a policy known as opt-out — improves rural anesthesia…

Rural hospitals serve populations with greater need, fewer resources and less margin for error than almost any other type of healthcare institution. The CFOs who steward their finances are making the decisions that keep these organizations financially viable. Through disciplined…

The prevailing debate over HR-1’s Rural Health Transformation Program has centered on what the program won’t deliver. Some rural leaders have raised questions about whether the $50 billion initiative will reach the providers it was designed to support; separate concerns…

For Sutter North Medical Group, the math of rural healthcare in California is challenging. Travel north or west from Yuba City, and commercial insurance coverage drops precipitously — from roughly 40% of patients to 20% or below. The populations that…

For millions of Americans living in rural communities, access to care is no longer something they can take for granted. Hospitals are closing, maternity wards are disappearing, and patients are traveling farther for surgeries and specialty care that were once…

The Maryland Department of Health awarded $80 million to 41 grantees in the first round of funding under the Rural Health Transformation Program, Gov. Wes Moore announced Aug. 10. The awards fund projects to expand primary care, behavioral health and…

Healthcare and social assistance job openings fell by 147,000 in June, the largest single-month decline for the sector in nearly a year, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released Aug. 4. The drop brought healthcare and…

Rural healthcare leaders are turning resource limits into a sharper lens for technology investment. As federal initiatives like the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program infuse rural health systems with new capital, the organizations seeing the most impact are not…