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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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Hospitals Face Increased Costs of Caring for Patients

This week, the AHA released an updated Costs of Caring report, which provides a data-driven assessment of the structural drivers of hospital care cost growth.
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Supporting Access to Care in Rural Communities

More than 57 million rural Americans depend on their hospital not only as an important source of care but also as a critical component of their area's economic and social framework. Rural hospitals also face the same difficulties shared by many hospitals — including financial stress, workforce shortages, and inadequate reimbursement from government payers like Medicare and Medicaid, just to name a few. The AHA is engaged in many advocacy efforts to support rural hospitals and ensure access to care in rural communities.
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Chair File: Advancing Health and Quality Care in Rural Communities

For the 61 million people who live in rural America, their local hospital provides essential services and programs to advance their health and the health of their communities.
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340B is a Solution, not a Threat to Addressing Health Care Affordability in the U.S.

Many Americans may be unaware that the services they rely on every day through their local hospital are supported by a program called the 340B Drug Pricing Program.
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Chair File: Overcoming Challenges, Advancing Innovation in Rural Health Care

All hospital and health system leaders are committed to delivering the best possible care to the people we serve while navigating the changes and challenges we face.
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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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Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Insights and Innovation in Rural Hospitals with Mark Boucot of Potomac Valley Hospital

This year I’ll be continuing the AHA Leadership Dialogue series and talking with health care, business and community leaders on trending topics in the field.
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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.