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The state’s $193 million award is designed to help offset the $20 billion the state is expected to lose in Medicaid dollars.

All-cause mortality rates in rural areas have exceeded those in urban areas of the US since the 1980s, and the gap continues to widen. Yet no definitive causes of this difference are known, and within ...

We want eastern North Carolina to know, that all the work we’re doing is really about bringing resources to things to support ...

Mayor Laura Thomas knows there are a lot of federal programs that could help her small town of Jackson, Ky., recover from a series of recent disasters: two historic floods, a destructive ice storm and ...

For the period 2007–17 rural death rates were higher than urban rates for the seven major causes of death analyzed, and disparities widened for five of the seven. In 2017 urban areas had met national ...

Rural healthcare providers in Michigan are warning that federal Medicaid reforms could intensify financial pressures on ...

Small town hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices in Mississippi are about to have almost $206 million spread out to them ...

The rural residence located at 490 Sunset Drive in Angwin was sold on April 30, for $1.25 million, or $488 per square foot.

A rural residence located at 1862 Milton Road in Napa has a new owner since April 30.

Students who enroll in either of UAB’s Rural Medicine Programs commit to becoming primary care physicians in rural and small town communities in Alabama. The Rural Medical Scholars Program includes a ...