Despite advances including the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion bringing insurance coverage and health care accessibility to millions of Americans, the health of rural Americans continues to lag behind those in suburban and urban areas.
From Kaiser Health News Network – ‘No Mercy’ is Season One of ‘Where It Hurts,’ a podcast about overlooked parts of the country where cracks in the health system leave people without the care they need. Their first destination is Fort Scott, Kansas.
From Kaiser Health News Network – ‘No Mercy’ is Season One of ‘Where It Hurts,’ a podcast about overlooked parts of the country where cracks in the health system leave people without the care they need. Their first destination is Fort Scott, Kansas.
From Kaiser Health News Network – ‘No Mercy’ is Season One of ‘Where It Hurts,’ a podcast about overlooked parts of the country where cracks in the health system leave people without the care they need. Their first destination is Fort Scott, Kansas.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health will partner with West Health—a family of nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations dedicated to lowering health care costs to enable seniors to successfully age in place—in a $4.5 million research collaboration to create an innovative “Geriatric Emergency Department”.
Georgia ranks near the bottom of all 50 states for the number of primary care providers. Recent data from America’s Health Rankings, 2018 Annual Report, places Georgia at 42nd for the number of primary care doctors per capita, 43rd in its supply of registered nurses and 48th in advanced practice nursing care.
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