Rural Healthcare

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…

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…

When Congress packaged $50 billion for rural healthcare inside HR 1, it offered a number large enough to generate headlines and excitement. But the distribution of funds, planned over five years, has raised questions. The Rural Health Transformation Program arrived…

Mississippi has established the Mississippi Rural Health Transformation Program Office and launched a related website. The office will coordinate implementation of the state’s rural health plan, align agencies and oversee program administration, according to an April 29 news release from…

Rural healthcare is at an inflection point. Hospitals are closing or scaling back essential services. Labor and delivery units are disappearing. Rural operating rooms sit idle not due to a lack of patients, but to a shortage of clinicians. At…

As funds begin flowing to states through the five-year, $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, hospital leaders are confronting a central question: Will the initiative meaningfully stabilize struggling providers — or will it fall short of offsetting an estimated $137…

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…