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| Aug 19, 2026 | Patients wary of governments, companies pushing AI as a rural healthcare solution | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Arielle Zionts and Darius Tahir, KFF Health News
HOT SPRINGS, S.D. — Two of the nation’s most powerful health officials predict artificial intelligence will play a key role in solving rural Amer... |
| Jun 18, 2026 | Backed by threat of clawbacks, feds wield tight grip on $50B rural health fund | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Sarah Jane Tribble, KFF Health News
In Maine, state health officials hoped to steer a slice of $190 million in new federal rural health funding to shield hospitals and clinics from the fallout c... |
| May 22, 2026 | When Rural Maternity Care Fails: Why Bipartisan Policy Must Stabilize Obstetric Infrastructure | Lora Sparkman, MHA, RN, BSN, VP and Partner for Clinical Solutions, Patient Safety & Quality at Relias
More than one-third of U.S. counties are now considered maternity care deserts. In 2023, the national maternal mortality rate hit 18.... |
| May 19, 2026 | ScribeEMR to Exhibit AI Medical Scribing, RCM, and Coding Solutions at NRHA’s 49th Annual Rural Health Conference | BOSTON, MA, UNITED STATES, May 18, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- ScribeEMR, a leading provider of AI-powered healthcare documentation solutions, including AI and virtual scribing, coding and medical office services, will exhibit at the Nationa... |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Viz.ai and NRHA Collaborate to Deploy AI in Rural Hospitals | What You Should Know
Viz.ai has partnered with the National Rural Health Association (NRHA) through its Rural Hospital & Clinic Partnership Program to help rural leaders implement AI-powered detection and coordination tools.
The initiat... |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Rural health providers could be collateral damage from $100K Trump visa fee | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Arielle Zionts, Phillip Reese, KFF Health News
Bekki Holzkamm has been trying to hire a lab technician at a hospital in rural North Dakota since late summer. Related Articles
Federal judge says ... |
| Sep 24, 2025 | Medicaid cuts are coming: 4 ways Americans with disabilities can start protecting their finances | By Lane Gillespie, Bankrate.com
Alexis Leone, a 34-year-old mother of five in rural Mississippi, initially tried her best to juggle her full-time job with her youngest child’s needs. Related Articles
Sexually transmitted disease cases fall,... |
| Sep 24, 2025 | The New Digital Frontier: How QHIN-Connected EHRs Level the Playing Field for Community Hospitals | Jay Adams, Executive Vice President of Altera Sunrise
In the past, technology was often used as a wedge against local hospital independence. Big systems would offer subsidized EHRs, and in exchange, small hospitals would give up control—ove... |
| Aug 27, 2025 | FACT FOCUS: Rural hospitals are expected to lose money from Trump’s bill, despite RFK Jr.’s promise | THE CLAIM: Kennedy, speaking about the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”: “Under the rural transformation program, we give them an extra $10 billion a year. We’re raising an infusion of cash, rural hospitals and rural communities, by 50%. It’s g... |
| Jul 1, 2025 | Medicaid cuts in Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’ will leave millions uninsured, threaten rural hospitals | President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” would make sweeping changes to U.S. health care, leaving millions without health insurance and threatening hospitals.
The Senate passed the spending measure after a marathon voting session on am... |
| May 27, 2025 | Rural Healthcare Challenges: How AI & Telemedicine Can Improve Access | Randy Boldyga, CEO and Founder of RXNT
With tight-knit communities, strong traditions, and a deep sense of resilience, rural America is a key piece of our nation’s fabric. Yet, for many people living in these areas—one in five Americans—get... |
| May 16, 2025 | ScribeEMR to Provide Rural Health AI Medical Scribing & Coding Solutions at NRHA’s 48th Annual Rural Health Conference | WOBURN, MA, UNITED STATES, May 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- ScribeEMR, a leading provider of AI-powered healthcare documentation solutions, virtual scribing, coding and medical office services, will exhibit at the National Rural Health As... |
| Apr 12, 2025 | Rural hospitals question whether they can afford Medicare Advantage contracts | Medicare is the main federal health insurance program for people 65 or older. Participants can enroll in traditional, government-run Medicare or in a Medicare Advantage plan run by a private insurance company.
In 2024, 56% of urban Medicare... |
| Jul 27, 2024 | Health | Rural hospitals built during baby boom now face baby bust | These days, many Americans choose to have small families or no children at all. Modern birth control methods help make such decisions stick. The trend is amplified in small towns when young adults move away, taking any childbearing potentia... |
| Jan 22, 2024 | Health | Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum | Markian Hawryluk | (TNS) KFF Health News
Kevin Stansbury, the CEO of Lincoln Community Hospital in the 800-person town of Hugo, Colorado, is facing a classic Catch-22: He could boost his rural hospital’s revenues by offering hip replacement... |
| May 16, 2023 | Emerging Technologies Will Increase Access And Help Democratize Diabetes Care | Ron Erickson is the CEO and chairman of Know Labs, a company working to deliver an FDA-cleared noninvasive glucose monitor. |
| May 5, 2023 | As Workforce Shortages Intensify, CMS’ Value-based Care Ambitions Hang in the Balance | The U.S. healthcare system’s shift from volume to value has been a trudging fifteen-year journey. Despite its potential to reduce costs and improve quality of care, the national movement toward value-based care has been harried by inconsist... |
| Jan 16, 2023 | Hundreds of Hospitals Could Close Across Rural America | MONDAY, Jan. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Hundreds of rural hospitals across the United States are teetering on the edge of closure, with their financial status increasingly in peril, a new report reveals.
More than 200 rural hospitals are ... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | Eagle Telemedicine Enhances Health Access for Rural Communities with Broadened NRHA Relationship | Eagle Telemedicine At Eagle, we are working to solve the health coverage gap problem by increasing rural hospitals’ access to round-the-clock overage with on-demand inpatient physicians.
ATLANTA (PRWEB) September 20, 2022
Eagle Telemedicine... |
| Sep 9, 2022 | The Fast Pace of Cancer Research is Leaving Community Clinicians Behind | Corey Zankowski, CEO of Primum
We are witnessing an accelerated pace of amazing breakthroughs and advancements in cancer care today, with new treatments emerging almost weekly and unprecedented opportunities to help improve patient outcomes... |
| May 5, 2022 | 20Lighter Announces Presentations at the NRHA’s 45th Annual Rural Health Conference and Health Equity Pre-Conference | Clinical data presentations highlight effectiveness of 20Lighter in reducing risk of CVD development and progression in younger patients and rural locations.
LITTLE ROCK, AR, UNITED STATES, May 5, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- 20Lighter, LLC, ... |
| Jan 31, 2022 | "Tireless work" transforms Hoosier rural health through IRHA advocacy, programs | IRHA has exceeded expectations in service to rural people and healthcare professionals, continuously raising the bar
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (PRWEB) January 31, 2022
Telehealth advocates, rural obstetrics supporters, rural broadband funding, subs... |
| Rural hospitals are caught in an aging-infrastructure conundrum | Kevin Stansbury, the CEO of Lincoln Community Hospital in the 800-person town of Hugo, Colorado, is facing a classic Catch-22: He could boost his rural hospital’s revenues by offering hip replacements and shoulder surgeries, but the 64-year... |