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Almost half of the nation's rural hospitals operate in the red on a good day. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, rural hospital CEOs warn that soon some may be unable to pay their workers. And their doors may close when the community most needs them.
A Kaiser Health News analysis shows that counties with ICUs average one ICU bed for every 1,300 older residents, those most at risk for needing hospitalization.
As community hospitals struggle, they often turn to large religious-based hospital groups to bail them out. But that can limit the types of services they offer, especially reproductive health treatment such as abortion.
As the Democratic primary campaign nears pivotal voting, important aspects of health care policy are being overlooked.
KHN senior correspondent Markian Hawryluk joined Colorado Public Radioās Avery Lill on āColorado Mattersā to discuss his recent story on how high-deductible health plans are especially hurting the financial health of patients and hospitals in rural America.
For rural physicians, the burden of responding to the opioid epidemic falls squarely on their already loaded shoulders. For one doctor in a small Wisconsin village, there was no question that she wanted to rise to the challenge.
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
Eight years ago, a new medical program opened in Salina, Kan., as an experimental way to promote rural medicine. Hailed as a solution to the rural doctor shortage, only three of its eight newly minted doctors are now working in the most rural communities.
KHN Midwest correspondent Lauren Weber joined StateImpact Oklahoma reporter Jackie FortiƩr to discuss why a series of rural hospitals collapsed, leaving hundreds of residents without jobs and their communities without lifesaving emergency medical care.
State regulators and even one medevac company have raised doubts about prepaid subscriptions and promised benefits offered by air ambulance companies.
Jorge A. Perez and his management company, EmpowerHMS, helped run an empire of rural hospitals. Now, in a staggering implosion, 12 of them have entered bankruptcy and eight have closed their doors, leaving hundreds of residents without jobs and their communities without lifesaving emergency medical care. So, what happened?
The loss of the longtime hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., forces trauma patients to deal with changing services and expectations.
Residents in Colorado ski resort country found relief from high insurance premiums and high hospital costs by joining forces and negotiating prices directly with the local hospital.
Kaiser Health News gives readers a chance to comment on a recent batch of stories.
As the rural town of Fort Scott, Kan., grapples with the closure of its hospital, cancer patients face new challenges as they try to continue their treatments in different locations.
Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Joanne Kenen of Politico and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post join KHNās Julie Rovner to discuss the Trump administrationās efforts to curtail federally funded research using fetal tissue, the backlash from former Vice President Joe Bidenās support for the anti-abortion Hyde Amendment and how health policy intersects with both trade and immigration policy.
A proposed adjustment to the wage index, used in setting a hospitalās Medicare reimbursement payments, could be a lifeline for some rural facilities.
Deep questions underlie what is happening in Fort Scott, Kan.: Do small communities like this one need a traditional hospital at all? And, if not, what health care do they need?
After depending on the local hospital for more than a century, Fort Scott residents now are trying to cope with life without it.
Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call join KHNās Julie Rovner to discuss the latest news about womenās reproductive health policy and the latest skirmish in the debate over āMedicare-for-allā: how hospitals should be paid.
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