Rural Health Care Leadership Conference News Coverage

Learn how an Oregon association collaborated with community stakeholders to produce an evidence-based toolkit to prevent workplace violence.

Critical Access Hospitals, certain clinics, and other eligible outpatient facilities that provide primary care or substance use disorder treatment to high-need urban or rural areas can apply through May 30 to become a National Health Service Corps site.

The Health Resources and Services Administration will host a webinar for applying for grants to coordinate maternal and obstetrics care in rural regions.

Learn about the framework for Gundersen Health System’s (La Crosse, Wis.) model for affiliations with critical access hospitals and how it has led to reduced operational costs and reduced costs of care.

Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, yesterday introduced AHA-supported legislation (S. 948) to improve and extend the Conrad State 30 program until 2021.

The Health Resources and Services Administration expects to award up to $9 million over four years to develop a sustainable network approach to coordinate maternal and obstetrics care in rural regions.

Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today introduced the Rural Hospital Regulatory Relief Act (S. 895).

Eligible organizations can apply through May 6 for up to $1 million each for a three-year period to expand opioid and other substance use disorder services in high-risk rural communities.

Five hospitals and five payers are participating in the first year of the Pennsylvania Rural Health Model, a multi-payer global budget model for rural critical access and acute-care hospitals in the state.

The ability to provide rural residents with high-quality health care is contingent upon an adequate supply of providers.