rural health

College students infuse college towns with energy and money. But now the institutions enlivening college towns threaten to bring death. College classes, dorms and sporting events can spread the pandemic. But unless small colleges can open this fall, dozens, maybe hundreds, will likely go under, taking the lifeblood of small towns with them.

The indictment alleges Jorge Perez and others exploited federal regulations that allow some rural hospitals to charge substantially higher rates for laboratory testing than other providers.

Rural hospitals have been planning for the arrival of the coronavirus, but the preparations are putting some of these hospitals in financial danger.

The closure of small and rural hospitals will escalate as they confront COVID-19 and a provision in Trump’s tax act.

The COVID crisis comes as rural hospitals have been closing — 10 in Missouri since 2014.

A 25-bed hospital is selling blood tests it says will tell people if they have COVID-19 immunity, but public health officials say that's not what the tests do.

Rural hospitals face “catastrophic cash shortages” brought on by the COVID-19 crisis and need congressional action to save them, according to a Leawood,…

Remote rural towns are a good place to be early in a pandemic, according to epidemiologists, but that flips as the people in those towns begin to get…

GARDEN CITY, Kansas — When Christi Graber checked into the St. Catherine Hospital emergency room late last year, she thought she was having a heart...

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FORT SCOTT, Kan. — A slight drizzle had begun in the gray December sky outside Community Christian Church as Reta Baker, president of the local hospital,…

While local 4-H groups are known for summer programming, educator Julie Kreikemeier works with hundreds of students year-round across Colfax and Cuming...