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Suicide in Rural Communities: Breaking Barriers to Behavioral Health Care

Susan Doherty, AHA’s Vice President of Field Engagement, and Rebecca Chickey, AHA’s Senior Director of Behavioral Health Services, write on the unique ways suicide affects rural communities and the innovative ways rural health care providers are caring for their neighbors.
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AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference Provides Practical Solutions, Meaningful Perspectives and Proven Approaches to Strengthen Rural Health

The 39th Annual AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference will be held Feb. 8-11 in San Antonio, Texas. The conference brings together senior executives, physician leaders, trustees and nurse executives from the nation's leading rural hospitals and health systems to share actionable strategies and resources aimed at improving access to care, leveraging unique workforce approaches and implementing digital technologies.
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AHA Committee Chairs Come Together for Increasing Access to Behavioral Health Services in Rural Communities

Sean Fadale, FACHE President and CEO, Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home Gloversville, N.Y. 
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Perspective: Supporting Our Rural Hospitals and Communities

In Bellingham, Wash., the PeaceHealth clinic is using community health workers, or promotoras, to help educate farmworkers in rural communities about the importance of getting the COVID-19 vaccine. 
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Rural Collaborative Improves Behavioral Health Care Access, Integration

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavioral health care services.
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Chair File: Celebrating the ‘Power of Rural’ and Keeping Rural Hospitals Strong

Every November, we celebrate National Rural Health Day to raise awareness of the challenges facing rural hospitals and health systems and help highlight the innovative work they are doing to preserve access to high-quality, affordable care.
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Making our Voice Heard and Leading the Way to Advance Health in America

It is important for us to continue to exercise the principles of democracy that Washington and the Founding Fathers fought so hard for and speak up, asking hard questions of candidates in this election year and evaluating their thinking on the issues that affect our field.
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Advancing Health in America Is a Bipartisan Goal We Can All Get Behind

The convening of the 118th Congress this week is a reminder of Washington’s highly-charged political environment.
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Hospitals Face Financial Pressures as Costs of Caring Continue to Surge

The AHA’s new Costs of Caring report highlights how hospitals and health systems continue to experience significant financial pressures that challenge their ability to provide 24/7 care for patients and communities.