Communities in rural America are turning to new methods to attract the physicians needed to serve the needs of their communities. Governing interviewed CEO of Kearny County Hospital in Lakin, Kansas, about the situation his hospital is facing, and provides analysis of physician data across...
The CEO of Carthage Area Hospital spoke with Becker's Hospital Review and shared his story of bringing the Critical Access Hospital from brink of bankruptcy to financial viability. With all of the financial pressures on Critical Access Hospitals today, the work of Carthrage Area Hospital...
The Health Resources and Services Administration announced last week that it expects the new 340B registration system to be released by mid-September, however this will not include to the 340B ceiling-price verification component. HRSA notified users, and put on the registration website, that the current...
According to the latest tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, most Americans believe it is a "good thing" that Senate Republicans failed in their effort to pass legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act last month. Six out of 10 respondents indicated that they are...
More Americans are living in hospital deserts, places where the nearest emergency room is 30 or more miles away, as rural hospitals are under increased threat of closure. "Some in Congress have proposed efforts to try to save rural hospitals. A bipartisan group of senators led...
The President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis released a draft of their first findings. In the report, the commission states the opioid crisis is a "public health emergency" and urges President Trump to declare a national emergency. [button link="http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/02/541071209/should-the-opioid-crisis-be-declared-a-national-emergency" target="_blank" hover_type="default" text="Read Draft of...
See the list of 10 states with top performing rural critical access hospitals and read more about them below. [button link="https://www.hrsa.gov/about/news/pressreleases/2017/hrsa-recognizes-ten-states.html" target="_blank" hover_type="default" text="Read Full Article"] ...
Health Bills to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act could put rural providers in serious hardships, exacerbating the issues they already face. Roger Knak, CEO of the Oklahoma CAH Fairview Regional Medical Center, spoke with Modern Healthcare about the potential impact the proposed health bills could...
The unique needs of the populations served by rural hospitals make their financial health difficult, a new report from the Chartis Center for Rural Health shows. With patients of lower socioeconomic status, and disproportionate Veterans and seniors, rural hospitals are struggling. [button link="http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/rural-hospitals-struggling-serving-populations-many-health-disparities-report-finds#.WWZaNUHB9U8.twitter" target="_blank" hover_type="default" text="Read...