Rural issues
Rural hospitals, which deliver about one in 10 babies nationally each year, have been closing in significant numbers. Despite the challenging environment, rural hospitals and health systems are taking traditional and innovative approaches to build or expand their maternal health programs.
The American Hospital Association has a wealth of media and educational resources available to rural hospitals and health systems. Here you will find the latest podcasts, webinars, toolkits, and more.
You can watch rural webinar recordings from the American Hospital Association.
Sen. Roger Marshall, M.D., R-Kan., opened the federal forum closing plenary by running down a list of concerns facing hospitals in his home state, and the value of the rural emergency hospital model to support remote communities.
Rural hospital advocates, CEOs and other leaders share their planning, implementation and innovations in this shifting environment.
Your guide to the latest rural health news and resources.
The Rural Health Redesign Center helps interested critical access hospitals and rural hospitals with 50 or fewer beds transition to Medicare’s new Rural Emergency Hospital designation. Learn more about the designation and its payment implications in this podcast from AHA’s special series on rural…
For critical access hospitals and rural hospitals with 50 beds or fewer, an attractive new option became available on January 1st of this year. That was the opportunity to seek designation as a new rural emergency hospital, which expands the conditions under which hospitals can seek payment from…
On April 3, Bay Area Hospital’s Kids’ Hope Center commemorated National Child Abuse Prevention Month by covering the center’s property with a sea of vibrant pinwheels.
Health care leaders can develop “specific competencies and skills that can contribute to effective crisis management,” write Helena Bonfitto and Benjamin Wise, senior program managers for AHA Funded Partnerships.