Sen. Josh Hawley introduces the Rural Hospital Emergency Room Guarantee Act to combat rural healthcare crisis with dedicated ...

Rural communities in the United States face a dire health crisis that threatens the population's well-being, says the American College of Physicians, in a new policy published today in the Annals of ...

Rising costs and low reimbursement rates put 28 rural Kansas hospitals at immediate risk of closing their doors.

For the period 2007–17 rural death rates were higher than urban rates for the seven major causes of death analyzed, and disparities widened for five of the seven. In 2017 urban areas had met national ...

Cancer in the United States experienced a dramatic turnaround in 1991. Prior to that year, cancer deaths had been increasing ...

Cancer in the United States experienced a dramatic turnaround in 1991. Prior to that year, cancer deaths had been increasing ...

Mayor Laura Thomas knows there are a lot of federal programs that could help her small town of Jackson, Ky., recover from a series of recent disasters: two historic floods, a destructive ice storm and ...

In the United States, severe maternal morbidity and mortality is climbing—a reality that is especially challenging for rural communities, which face declining access to obstetric services. Severe ...