1+ hour, 58+ min ago  (240+ words) Every week, Yonder Radio brings rural conversations with national reach to listeners around the country." Next, we talk with Sarah Jane Tribble of KFF Health News about the Rural Health Transformation Program, and close with an interview with the deputy…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (834+ words) For some rural Texans, the closest link to a doctor may now be the local library. Across the state, libraries are helping residents, particularly older adults, access telehealth appointments and digital health tools in communities where clinics, broadband, and transportation…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago  (682+ words) A new rural medical school in the upper Midwest is trying a different approach to increasing the rural healthcare workforce " instead of asking rural students to come to urban communities to learn rural healthcare, they've brought the medical school to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1299+ words) This story was co-published with KFF Health News. Families of Idahoans with disabilities say their lives could be upended as lawmakers in the state's Republican-dominated legislature mull sweeping cuts. Services at risk include the 24/7 care that allows a 39-year-old with…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (1443+ words) The retrofitted 40-foot container houses the new Davis Mountain Clinic in Fort Davis, a telehealth hub created through a partnership between Texas A&M and Texas Tech universities to connect residents with remote medical and mental health professionals. But for…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1036+ words) This story is co-published with KFF Health News. Robin Carlton pays about $650 a month for a plan on the Missouri health insurance exchange that covers him and his two teenage kids. That monthly total is $200 higher than what he paid…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1195+ words) This story was originally published by KFF Health News. In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion rural health fund. But plans to spend those…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago  (712+ words) The following is the second column in a two-part series on generational trauma. These columns were adapted with permission from "Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer," and the first column…...

8+ mon, 5+ day ago  (468+ words) Nobody loves our community and our relatives like we do," Church said. No one's going to look out or take care of our health system and advocate for our health systems like we will." According to research conducted by the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (713+ words) Access to disability services is better in rural communities than in urban ones, according to a new report from the University of Minnesota's Rural Health Research Center. Urban residents are more likely to report barriers to accessing health care than…...