This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. We will be taking the ...

Across the US since 2020, 101 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies or announced they soon will, according to a recent report from the Center for Healthcare Quality & Payment Reform. Sina ...

Rural hospitals could be putting pregnant women and babies at risk by slashing labor and delivery services across North Carolina. Natasha Fuller delivered her two children at Charles A. Cannon ...

The Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act is bipartisan legislation to reauthorize programs to improve access to healthcare in rural communities. Barriers result in unmet health care ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This essay is the first in a four-part series I’m calling Rural Health ...

Rural America faces many challenges that Congress and the federal government could help alleviate under the new Trump administration. Rural hospitals and their obstetrics wards have been closing at a ...

States can begin applying Monday for their share of a $50 billion fund for rural health providers under the GOP’s tax and spending law, but they need to move quickly. The Trump administration has ...

There is an approach to rural economic development that leverages existing resources and networks, rather than asking about what is missing. Don W. Macke shares his perspective on the question of ...

Key Takeaways Shortages of family physicians in rural America are getting worse year by yearRural doctors often have very high caseloads and face burnout, and fewer med students are choosing to become ...

Thaddeus L. Johnson, a former police officer, is a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and teaches criminology at Georgia State University. Natasha N. Johnson is a faculty member at the ...