Rural Health

HUFFPOST Article: A Hospital Crisis Is Killing Rural Communities. This State Is ‘Ground Zero.’

Source: HUFFPOST If you want to watch a rural community die, kill its hospital.After the Lower Oconee Community Hospital shut down in June 2014, other mainstays of the community followed. The bank and the pharmacy in the small town of Glenwood shuttered. Then the only grocery store in all of Wheeler County closed in the middle of August this year.On […]

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Legislation Introduced Aimed at Improving Rural Healthcare Delivery, Support & Health IT Infrastructure

Amidst the hectic and ever-changing regulatory environment of healthcare, there has been a greater push for legislation specifically directed at improving health care in rural areas. Several bills were recently introduced by Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) aimed at bolstering healthcare in rural areas by addressing infrastructure, access and quality issues common to communities struggling to meet

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