The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, announced the availability of $13 million in funding to increase access to behavioral health care services and address health inequities in rural America, including through evidence-based, trauma-informed treatment for substance use disorder.
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the Health Resources and Services Administration is announcing a major effort to strengthen and expand community-based primary care medical and dental residency programs in rural and underserved communities.
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Health Resources and Services Administration provided $398 million in funding through the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Program (SHIP) to 1,540 small rural hospitals for COVID-19 testing and mitigation.
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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