More hospitals across the U.S. are closing than opening, and urban hospitals are closing at the same rate as rural ones, ...

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In recent years, concerns about access to maternity care in rural areas have grown as hundreds of rural hospitals have closed their obstetrics units. In 2023, approximately half of rural hospitals ...

Less than half of rural hospitals in the U.S. still offer labor and delivery services, and researchers warn the situation will worsen unless commercial payers, Medicaid programs and employers change ...

Healthcare across rural America is in crisis. In the past two decades, close to 200 rural hospitals have closed – 44 since 2020 alone. Hundreds more have cut much-needed health services, such as ...

In Texas, fifty rural hospitals are at risk of closure. That is more than any other state in the country. Behind Texas, in descending order: Kansas (44), Tennessee (27), Georgia (25), and Mississippi ...

How Do I Treat the Very Elderly With Advanced Bladder Cancer as We Have so Many New Agents? Rural Americans with cancer face persistent and widening disparities in incidence, stage at diagnosis, ...

Rural areas of the US face shortages of all types of medical care, including urology, which results in poorer health outcomes ...

Between 2010 and 2025, U.S. hospitals shut down at comparable rates whether they were in urban or rural areas, according to a research letter published ...