Rural hospitals are defined as those in nonmetropolitan areas, and rural areas were broken down into those that were adjacent to metropolitan areas and those that were not. The analysis primarily ...

While patients in urban areas typically traveled shorter distances to receive care because they could access a higher number of hospitals to get treatment, the average patient traveled 17.4 km.

Labor and delivery services have ended or are set to end at 100 rural hospitals since the end of 2020, highlighting a growing maternal health access crisis across the U.S. The findings come from the ...

The partnership comes at a time when hundreds of rural hospitals nationally have closed or been bought by larger hospital ...

Some rural hospitals have canceled — or are considering ending — contracts with insurance companies that offer Medicare Advantage plans, saying the private policies jeopardize their finances and ...