Tag: Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center

By Liz Carey Daily Yonder A lack of competition among health insurers in rural areas has reduced the ability of market-based approaches to increase insurance enrollment, a new study says. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 sought to improve the health-insurance access in part through fostering more competition among insurers. But rural markets have less

By Taylor Knopf As people migrate toward urban centers, the rural infrastructure is crumbling. The population is aging. Jobs are dwindling. And rural hospitals are struggling to stay afloat or closing. In North Carolina, 20 counties do not have a pediatrician; 26 counties do not have an OB-GYN; and 32 are without a psychiatrist, according

By Taylor Knopf Rural hospitals are struggling to keep their lights on and the doors open. Since 2010, there have been 82 rural hospital closures across the U.S. Four were in North Carolina. The majority of the closures are in the Southeastern U.S., according to researchers based at UNC Chapel Hill. About two-thirds of closures

By Phil Galewitz Kaiser Health News Rural America carried President Donald Trump to his election night upset last November. Trump Country it may be, but rural counties and small towns also make up Medicaid Country — those parts of the nation whose low-income children and families are most dependent on the federal-state health insurance program,

By Rose Hoban In the past six years, dozens of rural hospitals around the United States have discharged their final patients and turned out the lights, including three in North Carolina. The nation’s crisis of opiate addiction and overdose has been playing out most strongly in rural towns, where family and community ties are strong

By Shefali Luthra Kaiser Health News 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 of the 2010 health overhaul could be adding to the gap. The finding comes from a study published Wednesday in the

By Thomas Goldsmith Across the United States, 76 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, three of them in North Carolina. A new report by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured attributes rural hospital closings to a broad range of factors. They include, but aren’t limited to, corporate decisions on profitability, lack of community

Sixty-eight rural hospitals have closed since January 2010. Hundreds more may be on the brink, including more than a third of critical access hospitals. By Taylor Sisk As has been widely reported in recent months, rural hospitals throughout the country face some daunting challenges. Now a new report helps put the extent of this issue

By Taylor Sisk North Carolina’s rural hospitals could soon be paying a steep price for the state legislature’s standing position not to expand Medicaid, according to the findings of a recently released UNC-Chapel Hill study. The researchers examined rural hospitals across the country in 2013, before any states had expanded Medicaid, which is allowed for

Small, rural hospitals throughout the country are struggling to stay in business. By Taylor Sisk The citizens of Yadkin County aren’t alone in their uncertainty about the future of health care in their community, though with the closure of Yadkin Valley Community Hospital they have more urgent decisions to be made than most. But Yadkin