Ms. Connor is a mother of six children. A grandmother of twice as many. She was raised on a farm, knows the meaning of hard work and reads her Bible daily. Unexpectedly, she suffered a stroke at the top of…
Rural Health
One of WVU Medicine’s small hospitals in rural West Virginia was nearing closure just a few years ago. Today its beds are nearly full, and leaders say a low-cost virtual care model helped reverse its trajectory. The Morgantown, W.Va.-based health…
Texas is set to receive $281 million in the first year of Rural Health Transformation Program funding — the largest total award of any state — yet it will receive the lowest amount per rural resident, according to KFF. The…
Health systems plan to grow their telehealth offerings after the federal government’s recent two-year extension for Medicare reimbursement, though executives are still calling for a permanent solution. President Donald Trump signed a two-year reprieve for Medicare telehealth flexibilities Feb. 3…
While the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program stands to be “a historic government investment,” Chartis said the initiative is likely to treat the symptoms, rather than cure the root ills, of rural hospitals. Chartis has been tracking data on…
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A Republican representative from Florida has introduced legislation that would eliminate the federal H-1B visa program, which allows employers to hire highly skilled foreign professionals through temporary work visas. Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., introduced the Ending Exploitative Imported Labor Exemptions,…
Fifty percent of executives say staff shortages have moderately or significantly reduced capacity to serve patients, a Covista report found. The healthcare infrastructure company polled 167 healthcare executives and 1,347 healthcare clinicians across disciplines and geographies between Nov. 4 and…
As financial pressure mounts across rural healthcare, revenue cycle management companies are rapidly expanding offerings aimed specifically at small, independent and community hospitals. The shift has been accelerated by staffing shortages, payer complexity and a new wave of federal rural…
Frey Medical Management, a rural hospital transformation company, is the new owner of Luverne, Ala.-based Crenshaw Community Hospital, according to a Jan. 31 post on the hospital’s Facebook page. The 25-bed hospital comprises inpatient, outpatient, medical and surgical care and…
As rural hospitals face the brunt of workforce shortages, their CEOs are taking a more proactive — and creative — approach to recruitment and retention. Recruitment has become a greater strategic focus for Rozanna Penney, CRNA, president and CEO of…