NC's Healthy Opportunities Program, "model for nation," helping rural areas with food, housing, utilities, could be expanded ...

Hundreds of thousands of rural Ohioans live in some form of health care desert, a geographic area where health needs go ...

Ohio's rural health care access gap can seem more like a chasm, but that's not stopping people from trying to fill it, often by thinking creatively.

States are investing in rural health, but most Southern states have long rejected federal Medicaid funds. That’s unlikely to ...

Health care workers willing to work in Pennsylvania’s underserved rural regions could get some help repaying student loans. This after the House Healthcare Committee renewed its drive to incentivize ...

Seven Maine hospitals have closed their birthing centers in the past decade, and two more will do so later this year.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs partnered with PA Turnpike to provide health resources to veterans in rural areas. PA ...

The Senate Finance Committee holds Health and Human Services secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s first confirmation ...

State officials have set aside nearly $10 million in state funding to provide additional mental health assistance services for rural areas of the state, including a program dedicated to helping ...

Outstanding contributions to rural health were honored at the Minnesota Rural Health Conference on June 16 in Duluth. Tim Rice, Staples, and the Breast Health Team, Aitkin and Brainerd Lakes, were ...

Study.com explores the benefits and advantages of working as an educator in a rural area rather than an urban one.