As rural and regional hospitals head into 2027, their leaders are moving away from volume as the main path to revenue. Instead, many are focused on keeping care close to home, reducing outmigration and capturing the revenue they have already…
Rural Healthcare
Most rural physician vacancies are identified late and never formally priced, according to a survey of rural healthcare administrators and clinicians from Jackson Physician Search, LocumTenens.com and MGMA. Three-quarters of administrators surveyed reported a consequential physician vacancy in the past…
Forty-three million Americans live in rural areas with primary care shortages. For the hospitals and health systems serving them, workforce instability is one of the top strategic challenges. Physician and clinician shortfalls, burnout and thin talent pipelines limit access and…
East Adams Rural Healthcare, a Ritzville, Wash.-based rural emergency hospital, has selected Azalea Health as its new EHR vendor. East Adams moved off its previous enterprise EHR platform after determining the system was too complex and costly for an organization…
Here is a sentence I wish someone would carry into every room where rural health care gets decided: the best care is often the care that stays home, and it costs the system less, not more. I have spent my…
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States are moving at markedly different speeds to deploy billions of dollars in new federal funding for rural healthcare. The $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program was established under HR 1 and is administered by CMS, which will distribute $10…
Cityblock Health has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Homeward Health, a rural-focused Medicare Advantage provider, in an all-stock transaction. The combination pairs Cityblock’s urban Medicaid and dual-eligible care model with Homeward’s rural-first approach, Cityblock CEO and co-founder Toyin Ajayi,…
In many parts of rural North Carolina, giving birth means driving farther, waiting longer and arriving sicker. As Erin Fraher, PhD, of the University of North Carolina’s Sheps Center told lawmakers in March, North Carolina does not have a maternity…
Rural healthcare is at an inflection point Rural healthcare organizations are under intensifying pressure. Nearly 46% of rural hospitals are operating with negative margins, and more than 400 are considered vulnerable to closure. At the same time, workforce shortages persist:…
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…