rural hospitals

Almost half of Oklahoma's rural hospitals are at risk of shutting down, according to a new report from a national health policy group.

A nurse practitioner is returning to his hometown to provide health care as rural hospitals close and it becomes harder to access preventive care.

In the past 10 years, more than 20 rural hospitals in Texas have stopped delivering babies.

A new federal program that pays rural hospitals in places like Kansas and Texas to shutter underused inpatient units and focus solely on emergency rooms and outpatient care hasn’t generated much interest yet.

American Public Media Research Lab data shows that 24 rural hospitals have closed in Texas since 2005 — the most of any state in the U.S.

With the coronavirus surging again, smaller hospitals in Kansas can't count on the life-saving help of bigger, nearby facilities.

The federal loans were meant to help hospitals survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet they're coming due now — at a time when many rural hospitals are still desperate for help.

The indictment alleges Jorge Perez and others exploited federal regulations that allow some rural hospitals to charge substantially higher rates for laboratory testing than other providers.

Small-town hospitals were already closing at an alarming rate before COVID-19, but now the trend appears to be accelerating just as the disease arrives in rural America.

Rural hospitals face “catastrophic cash shortages” brought on by the COVID-19 crisis and need congressional action to save them, according to a Leawood,...