Despite higher rates of chronic disease in rural areas vs. their urban counterparts, rural America's health care infrastructure is collapsing. Since 2010, about 150 rural hospitals have closed or been ...

Dermatologists remain concentrated in well-resourced, metropolitan communities, and persistent maldistribution is associated ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and 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 ...

A new analysis of more than 422,000 patients reveals a stark Alzheimer’s care gap between Maryland’s urban and rural communities. Rural regions often lack hospitals and dementia specialists, forcing ...

The Trump administration’s flagship budget package, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, is advancing through Congress and is currently awaiting a vote in the Senate. The bill includes the biggest ...

For those of us who have the privilege of working in health care, even incremental progress in the fight to solve our nation’s rural health crisis feels meaningful given the scale of the challenge. I ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a $50 billion investment into improving health care in rural areas in the U.S., the largest ever funding boost of this kind. More than 60 ...

April Health reports that the Collaborative Care Model effectively addresses the mental health gap in rural America by ...

The United States is home to a vibrant mosaic of rural landscapes, lifestyles and people. But new research shows there is room for advertisers and media to tell a more complete and authentic story of ...

Policy changes, technology limitations and problems in mapping data will all, in some way, limit the nation’s ability to bring broadband to rural America, industry watchers said. The states that have ...

Across the nation, the consequences of a childcare shortage are dire. Women leave the workforce. Young families move away. Employers can’t find enough workers. The childcare providers who remain often ...