Rural issues
In this conversation, Tina Eden, R.N., CEO of Virginia Gay Hospital, and Jacinda Bunch, Ph.D., R.N., assistant professor at the Iowa College of Nursing and senior advisor to Simulation in Motion-Iowa (SIM-IA), dive into how this mobile clinical education program (SIM-IA) is delivering high-impact…
Providence, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health systems, has partnered with Missoula’s Providence St. Patrick Hospital and the University of Montana to launch RESOLVE, a groundbreaking rural health collaborative.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec. 29 announced $50 billion in funds awarded to all 50 states through the Rural Health Transformation Program.
This fall, Providence Alaska Medical Center launched a new mobile mammography coach designed to bring high-quality breast cancer screening directly to rural communities across the state.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Dec. 19 announced the creation of the Office of Rural Health Transformation.
This webinar reviews the latest changes to the Hospital Price Transparency requirements, which were finalized in the CY2026 OPPS Rule. These changes go into effect on January 1, 2026. However, CMS will delay enforcement until April 1, 2026. The webinar features Terri Postma, a principal at HPA and…
Eilidh Pederson, CEO at Western Wisconsin Health, shares lessons from her unique birth experience, and outlines how rural hospitals can continue to provide needed access to safe, high-quality maternity health services.
Rural hospitals across the country are turning to structured partnership models to help protect essential services, strengthen negotiating leverage and prepare for new payment arrangements.
Five rural hospitals in Northern California have partnered to restore and expand access to magnetic resonance (MR) imaging through a shared mobile imaging program.
Dan Peterson, CEO of behavioral health services at Sutter Health, and Matthew White, M.D., chair of the behavioral health service line at Sutter Health, share how the system is expanding behavioral health access across rural Northern California.