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The Federal Communications Commission is providing up to $198 million in unused funds from prior funding years available to support Rural Health Care Providers, making the total available for FY 2020 $802.74 million, through its Rural Health Care Program. The program assists eligible health care providers purchase broadband and telecommunications services. Click here for...

Nearly one in five Americans live in rural areas and depend on their local hospital for care. Since 2005, 171 of those hospitals have closed, according to the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. The number of rural hospital closures has steadily increased over the past three...

HHS recognizes that rural hospitals and other rural providers operate on thin margins even during "normal" times, but with the advent of COVID-19, they are particularly hard hit. Therefore, under this targeted provider relief, four kinds of rural healthcare providers will receive dollars: Rural Acute Care...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wednesday, April 8 will host a call at 4 p.m. ET on which Jay Butler, CDC's deputy director for infectious diseases, and Eric Hargan, deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, will share guidance with partners, public health...

Rural hospitals and patients face major hardships in an already struggling system for patients in rural locales, click here. To that end, the CDC will hold a rural health specific webinar for providers, click here to register....

NIH Study Highlights Impacts of ED Openings and Closures for Heart Attack Patients A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health shows the impacts of rural hospitals opening and closing, decreasing and increasing travel time, respectively. The study found that when a new emergency...