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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.
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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.
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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%.
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A federally funded clinic in rural Mississippi embodies the history of community health centers in the U.S., and shows how these safety-net clinics can help minority patients during the pandemic.
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The pandemic has been particularly lethal in rural areas — it’s taking lives in those areas at a rate reportedly nearly 3.5 times higher than in metropolitan communities.
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As COVID-19 cases increase, many rural communities, places which were largely spared during the early months of the pandemic, are now contending with a spike in infections and hospitalizations.
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Florida received more than $1 million in rural development grants to help fund three projects, including two targeted at telemedicine, the federal…
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For nearly two weeks, a machine meant to run COVID-19 test results has been assembled and ready to operate at George E. Weems Memorial Hospital in rural…
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The Florida Department of Education is making $2 million available to rural counties across the state to increase access to telehealth to provide mental…
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America's rural hospitals were struggling even before the pandemic. Now, the loss of revenue from months of deferred treatments and surgeries have pulled more to the brink, as federal relief fades.