Rural communities across the United States are experiencing a significant—and unusual—financial crunch. Migration from urban to rural areas, spurred on by Covid-19, has led to a population boom, ...

Rebecca Nesbit and Laurie E. Paarlberg argue that volunteering cannot be a one-size-fits-all solution, as the experiences of ...

Missouri received the ninth-largest award of any state from the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, part of the GOP ...

Rural America grows a majority of this country’s food. Paradoxically, these communities experience overwhelming levels of food insecurity and hunger. They are called food insecure, meaning they cannot ...

For years, Cheri Morton dreamed of opening a boutique in the small rural community of De Leon, Texas. When she opened Kindred Threads in 2019, Morton had plans for ongoing in-store activities to keep ...

As a family doctor practicing in the small Kansas town of Fredonia, Jennifer McKenney juggles a far wider range of duties than her urban counterparts typically do. She provides colonoscopies to her ...

Xinxin Han is a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University School of Medicine, in Beijing, China. She was a senior research associate at the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity, ...

Rural environments are often difficult to define in administrative and professional contexts and carry notable biases and complexities. Population and density thresholds are the most common ...

Michigan is set to receive $173 million in federal funding for rural health programs. The funding, which is for fiscal year ...

The question before us seems simple enough. Yet the answer is a bit more elusive than it may appear at first glance. At its ...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) was awarded $173,128,201 for FY 2026 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under the Rural Health Transformation Program, ...

LDH will implement groundbreaking initiatives that will have a long-lasting impact on healthcare for rural Louisiana citizens ...