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More nurse practitioners are stepping up to meet the needs of Hoosier patients as Indiana grapples with a shortage of primary care doctors.Nurse…
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Darvin Bentlage says his health insurance plan used to be the same as all the other cattle farmers in Barton County, Mo.: Stay healthy until he turned 65,…
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A Wisconsin clinic provides free dental care so that poor rural residents can get their teeth fixed. But in most states people aren't so lucky. Millions of people have no access to dental care.
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It isn’t news that in rural parts of the country, people have a harder time accessing good health care. But new evidence suggests opposition to a key part…
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If someone is well-educated, the odds are that he or she will marry someone with similar credentials, according to census data. And that trend has…
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In rural communities, finding transportation to basic health care services can be difficult. So what if instead of making people come to health care –...
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WILLCOX, Arizona—Ask Sam Lindsey about the importance of Northern Cochise Community Hospital and he’ll give you a wry grin. You might as well be asking…
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When cattle farmer Greg Fleshman joined the board of Putnam County Memorial Hospital in rural northern Missouri in 2011, the hospital was on the brink of…
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Hospitals in out-of-the-way places are making trade-offs as they adopt electronic medical records. Some are joining larger health systems, while others are searching for ways to go it alone.