More than half of all U.S. mental health care takes place at the primary-care level, and that percentage is even higher in rural areas, where mental-health doctors are often hundreds...
“In an era of tight budgets and strained resources, Kentucky and its rural communities can no longer afford ‘business as usual’ in the delivery of health care services,” write Susan...
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease living in isolated rural areas “seem to be at greater risk” of death from COPD than those living in urban areas, even when “hospital rurality...
A recent study that concluded small, rural “critical access hospitals” have poorer patient outcomes and lower quality of care is making waves in the medical community. A federally funded monitoring...
A study has found that small, rural hospitals with the “critical access” designation have poorer patient outcomes and lower quality of care. The analysis, performed by researchers at the Harvard...
A new report from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows that low-income adults accounted for 56 percent of the 8 million rural emergency room visits in 2008....
By Tara KaprowyKentucky Health News With the Obama administration offering more funding to improve rural health care, Rural Training Track programs to steer medical students to rural areas are hoping...