Provincial Department of Health Office-Abra head Dr. Lilibeth Martin shares the eight priority health outcomes to the Human Resources for Health (HRH) personnel from the different Rural Health Units ...

KINGSVILLE, Tx — Many students have mental health concerns, but for those in rural areas, access to health care could be limited or not available at all. That’s why Texas A&M University ...

About 20% of the U.S. population lives in rural areas but only 9% of the country's physicians practice in rural communities, according to the Bureau of Health Professions.

From 2015 to 2019, there were at least 89 obstetric unit closures in rural hospitals across the country. By 2020, about half of rural community hospitals did not provide obstetrics care ...

"Rural health care," he said, "is like a tundra. You trample on it, it's really tough to get it to come back." Annie Jackson joined her neighbors on the steps of the state Capitol that July morning.

Here, we explore opportunities to redesign care models given the unique needs of rural communities and policy and payment reforms to scale home-based primary care access.

Rural Indigenous mothers had the highest combined rate of severe maternal illness and death during childbirth at about 225 per 10,000 births, she and her colleagues found in a recent study of ...

In some rural areas, births have dropped by three-quarters since the late 1950s, and hospitals are shuttering labor and delivery units, leaving mothers little access to care when they need it.

East Texas Community Health Services is rolling out a mobile health services program with their mobile health unit. CEO Anita Humphreys said they’ve had the truck for six years and typically use ...

This mobile medical unit, parked behind a community center in the rural East Texas town of Kirbyville, had become a lifesaver. “I like the people here, and it’s affordable care,” Huffman said.

Limited access to care can be fatal to rural women, the report found. According to a study by the Georgetown University Center for Families and Children, almost half of children (47%) and one in five ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, based in Memphis, launched a new mobile health unit meant to serve rural communities, UT leaders said on Tuesday.