KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 3, 2025

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University of Minnesota School of Public Health

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A research network housed at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (SPH) will continue its focus on the unique health challenges faced by rural populations, particularly those related… Continue reading →

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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University of Minnesota School of Public Health

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Q: What barriers to accessing healthcare do rural communities face? Henning-Smith: Rural residents have a variety of challenges accessing care. In general, they have access to fewer providers, especially… Continue reading →

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University of Minnesota School of Public Health

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These rates increase more for people in rural areas and people of color, who… Continue reading → Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. are consistently higher than those in many other high-income countries.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Community health worker programs can address common barriers in rural areas, where people face higher rates of poverty and certain health problems , said Gabriela Boscán Fauquier, who oversees community health worker initiatives at the National Rural Health Association. Learn more about KFF.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

follow our coverage of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNC Charlotte chemist develops purification system that removes PFAS by Coastal Review Online January 4, 2025 December 23, 2024 What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. It is important to acknowledge here that hundreds more hospitals, many in rural health shortage areas or in inner cities, would have closed had they not been rescued by larger systems. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Managed Competition.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

“You cannot hire firefighters when the house is already burning,” said Brian Castrucci, president and CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, an organization that advocates for public health policy.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. BY ERIC LARSEN and TOMMY IBRAHIM.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 3, 2025

Erin Fraher, a health policy professor at the University of North Carolina who advises the commission and studies the issue , said lawmakers who support the changes predict they will boost the rural health workforce. But its unclear whether that will happen, she said, because the programs are just getting started.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 31, 2025

It extends telehealth services to federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics that may serve as distant site providers. It allows for the payment and provision of audio-only telehealth services.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 24, 2025

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KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

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KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Click here to watch Sausser on America’s Heroes Group Read Sausser’s “ Across the South, Rural Health Care Has Become Trendy.’ ” KFF Health News contributor Rebecca Grapevine, of Healthbeat, discussed the barriers to lifesaving HIV drugs in Georgia on America’s Heroes Group on Feb.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 26, 2024

La promesa de Trump de deportaciones masivas tendrá repercusiones tanto si se producen como si no, dijo Tania Pacheco-Werner, directora del Central Valley Health Policy Institute de California. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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NC Health News

MARCH 31, 2025

Republican members of the states delegation have been more opaque.Press secretaries for Hudson and several other Republican representatives contacted by NC Health News did not respond to messages asking whether they would support or oppose cuts to federal funding. But advocates havent been met with complete silence from Republicans.

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NC Health News

MARCH 21, 2025

Improving access to care Stein said that to ensure North Carolinians can access the health care they need, his proposed spending plan invests more than $770 million in the first year of the biennium and more than $580 million in the second year by leveraging federal funding. Some of that money will go toward rural health care facilities.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Daniel Derksen, director del Center for Rural Health de la Universidad de Arizona, dijo que es poco probable que Arizona elimine su cláusula de activación y compense los fondos federales perdidos. Learn more about KFF. USE OUR CONTENT This story can be republished for free ( details ).

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KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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Association of Health Care Journalists

APRIL 9, 2025

The sheer breadth of the cuts is staggering: The layoffs affected agencies that exist to fight deadly pathogens, to protect the nations drug supply, to finance and carry out cutting-edge research along with countless other divisions and offices that touch everything from rural health to early childhood care, he wrote. 7, 2025.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. All signs point to systems rooted in the nation’s painful racist history, which even today affects all facets of American life.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 4, 2025

November The National Rural Health Association says that in the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, its members will accept live turkeys in partial payment of the medical debts that now affect 99.99 The trade associations for hospitals, drug and device companies and PBMs call on Congress to provide greater oversight of greedy insurers.

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NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

Now, Republican leaders in Washington are proposing major cuts to Medicaid, putting rural hospitals even further out in the cold. In North Carolina, 37 percent of births are covered by Medicaid, according to KFF, a nonprofit that analyzes health policy.

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NC Health News

MARCH 5, 2025

What can be done Rebecca Cerese, a health policy advocate with the North Carolina Justice Center , said the state is in a unique position” because it implemented expansion through a legislative process with bipartisan support from lawmakers.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 10, 2025

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Describing the 19 rural counties she serves as “very minimal-government-minded,” she said, “if you try to work against them, it will not go well.” ” Rural health departments are also stretched thin. ” As Trump comes into office in January, farmworkers may be even less protected.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The program was part of a so-called transformation that changed Medicaid from a traditional state-run, fee-for-service program to one run by national insurers — a policy shift that Republican legislative leaders insisted on before even considering expansion. But expansion is unquestionably Cooper’s most impactful health policy success.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jennifer Morse, medical director of the Mid-Michigan District Health Department, said local health officials have been hesitant to apply pressure after the backlash many faced at the peak of Covid. Rural health departments are also stretched thin.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Jeremy Young, productor senior de Fault Lines en Al Jazeera English, colaboró con este informe.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 31, 2025

the anti-vaccine activist President Donald Trump nominated to lead the nation’s top health agency, did little to win over his critics at two Senate confirmation hearings this week. And by botching answers to basic questions about health policy, Kennedy supplied some evidence. Kennedy Jr., Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.)

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KFF Health News

APRIL 9, 2025

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NC Health News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

They relied on Medicaid to pay for Moshers health needs. Now the vice president of health policy at Washington-based communications firm GMMB , Mosher said it is important for Medicaid beneficiaries to share their own experiences with federal lawmakers. It is how I got my vaccinations, she said.

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