Lauren Faison-Clark is CEO of a hospital in rural Perry who has anxiously been waiting for the state to start accepting grant applications for $209 million in “Rural Health Transformation” money. Her ... NPR: They counted on a rural dialysis unit to keep them alive.

Understanding the Context

Then it closed A hospital in Nebraska shut down the only dialysis unit for miles, upending lives. That's despite a new federal program that gave the state more than $200 million to improve rural health care access. They counted on a rural dialysis unit to keep them alive. Then it closed Forbes: Rural Health Resilience: A Four-Part Series On Healing The Other America Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights.

Key Insights

I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This essay is the first in a four-part series I’m calling Rural Health ... Ambulance car of emergency medical service leaving on rural dirt road in the middle of fields. Themes urgency, rescue and health care in remote location. This trend began in 2017 following a CMS rule ...

Final Thoughts

The Rural Transit Assistance Center (RTAC), housed within Western Illinois University's Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs and made possible with support from the Illinois Department of ...