rural doctors

The program is meant to soften the coming cuts to Medicaid. The state health department recently announced the first round of Kansas grantees. Hospitals are using the money to increase healthcare access to rural patients.

In April, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Texas A&M University Health Sciences Center hosted a tour of a clinic built in a retrofitted shipping container in Burton, Texas. It's the latest collaboration in an ongoing effort to bring community-run clinics to rural areas, where access is harder to achieve.

Rural Kansans could see longer drives to access healthcare or fewer health services because of hospital closures. A report found that Kansas has 28 rural hospitals at immediate risk of closure.

Congress established the rural emergency hospital designation to provide financial stability to facilities amid growing concerns over closures. The goal is to maintain access to outpatient and emergency services in rural communities.

Nearly 2,000 Oklahomans die from stroke-related complications annually. That burden is felt more in rural communities, where access to specialized care is limited.

As Texas develops its application for federal Rural Health Transformation Program funding, rural hospital leaders say stabilizing their facilities should be a top priority. "Without it, all the planning in the world will not matter because there will be no hospital left to transform," one said.

There aren’t enough doctors in rural Oklahoma to meet patients’ needs. In fact, the majority of counties are designated as Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Areas by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. That’s got a lot to do with how doctors are educated. And now medical schools and residency programs are addressing the shortage, head on.

Workforce deficits are worst in the psychiatric and obstetrics and gynecology specialties, with unmet demand in 2019 sitting at 32% and 21%, respectively.

Texas is facing a major shortage of doctors, reports WFAA. In fact, the Lone Star State ranks 47th among all states when it comes to having enough doctors…

When it comes to having a high ratio of doctors to citizens, the State of Texas ranks near the bottom. In fact, as The Dallas Morning News reports, 43…