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    Rural Americans Are Way More Likely To Die Young. Why? – Fitnessnacks

    Three words are commonly repeated to describe rural America and its residents: older, sicker and poorer. Obviously, there’s a lot more going on in...

    City-Country Mortality Gap Widens Amid Persistent Holes in Rural Health Care Access – Fitnessnacks

    Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in...

    Operating in the Red: Half of Rural Hospitals Lose Money, as Many Cut Services – Fitnessnacks

    In a little more than two years as CEO of a small hospital in Wyoming, Dave Ryerse has witnessed firsthand the worsening financial...

    Federal Program to Save Rural Hospitals Feels ‘Growing Pains’ – Fitnessnacks

    KEOKUK, Iowa — Folks in this Mississippi River town hope a new federal program can revive the optimism engraved long ago in a...

    Rural Hospitals Are Caught in an Aging-Infrastructure Conundrum – Fitnessnacks

    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...

    Listen to ‘Tradeoffs’: How the Loss of a Rural Hospital Compounds the Collapse of Care – Fitnessnacks

    The share of rural Americans who live in communities without a hospital grows each year. It’s part of an ongoing collapse in rural...

    Once-Resistant Rural Court Officials Begin to Embrace Medications to Treat Addiction – Fitnessnacks

    DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Rachel Solomon and judges hadn’t been on the best of terms. Then Judge O. Duane Slone “dumbfounded” her. Solomon was given...

    Black, Rural Southern Women at Gravest Risk From Pregnancy Miss Out on Maternal Health Aid – Fitnessnacks

    As maternal mortality skyrockets in the United States, a federal program created to improve rural maternity care has bypassed Black mothers, who are...

    Foster Kids in Casino Hotels? It Happened in Rural Nevada Amid Widespread Foster Home Shortages – Fitnessnacks

    ELKO, Nev. — Brandy Holbrook spent April driving hundreds of miles across four counties in northeastern Nevada to deliver a plea to local...

    As Fewer MDs Practice Rural Primary Care, a Different Type of Doctor Helps Take Up the Slack – Fitnessnacks

    WINTERSET, Iowa — For 35 years, this town’s residents have brought all manner of illnesses, aches, and worries to Kevin de Regnier’s storefront...
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