Forty-four percent of rural Medicare patients must drive an hour or more for surgery, a recent analysis in JAMA finds. The study shows that patients in rural areas typically drive 55 minutes to a ...

HOUSTON, Miss. - Getting emergency care for people living in rural areas is increasingly more difficult as hospitals there struggle to stay afloat. It’s evident in small towns like Houston, Miss., ...

Imagine a rural past with agriculture, manufacturing and a wealth of natural resources working together to fuel the local economy. “You had these communities that were self-sustaining,” Mary Ann ...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz and state governments will have a great deal of discretion in spending the $50 billion in rural hospital funding passed in the ...