rural health

Coastal and politically progressive states have passed stronger paid sick and family leave policies than many states with larger rural populations.

Some rural residents must travel hours for a sexual assault exam. Specialized telehealth services are expanding so they can obtain care closer to home.

Since 2017, Medicaid expansion has been adopted in seven states where a question was placed directly on the ballot. But campaign leaders say that strategy may not work in Florida.

A months-long examination found gaping holes and expansive gray areas through which banned individuals slip to repeatedly bilk Medicaid, Medicare and other taxpayer-funded federal programs.

The number of U.S. health care providers certified to prescribe buprenorphine more than doubled in the past four years, and treatment advocates hope to see that trend continue.

A study published in JAMA leads to questions about the uneven distribution of pediatric nephrologists nationwide. Children with end-stage kidney disease feel the impact.

Nonprofit federally funded health centers are a linchpin in the nation’s health care safety net because they treat the medically underserved. The average profit margins is 5%, but some have recorded margins of 20% or more in three of the past four years.

President Joe Biden’s Cabinet members are fanning out across the county to promote benefits coming to rural America from COVID relief and infrastructure legislation.

To keep emergency services afloat in rural areas, communities will have to go beyond volunteer-based programs to get people to distant hospitals, experts say. Meanwhile, some 911 calls go unanswered.

The vaccination rates in 23 of the state’s 67 counties - almost all rural and largely spread across North Florida - were below 40%. The rates in nine counties were below 30%.