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…
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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…
Innovation Under Pressure. 7 ways rural leaders are turning constraint into tech-driven advantage
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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…
Nebraska’s Department of Health and Human Services launched a public dashboard July 30 tracking the state’s Rural Health Transformation Program funding. Six notes: 1. The agency built the tool to show stakeholders and the public how transformation program dollars are…
When I read the recent Becker’s Hospital Review brief, “Rural hospital CEO sees ‘no hope in the rural health transformation funds,'” I understood the frustration behind the headline. For decades, rural hospitals have been asked to do more with less.…
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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…
Independent rural hospitals in Minnesota, North Dakota and Ohio are banding together into regional networks to compete with larger, consolidating health systems and payers, according to a July 22 Commonwealth Fund article. Here are four things to know: 1. North…
Baton Rouge, La.-based FMOL Health was sending patients to outside hospitals, even when the system could provide the same care. The 10-hospital system’s transfer acceptance rate sat at 67.5%. President and CEO E.J. Kuiper decided the system needed a dedicated…
A year and a half ago, Bob Berbeco was doing what most health system CIOs know all too well. He was fielding AI pitches, launching pilots and watching vendor promises accumulate. Then he decided to stop. For most rural hospitals,…
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…