Rural hospitals

Two rural hospitals in southwest Ohio recently announced they’re cutting services. It’s part of a larger trend of dwindling healthcare options in Ohio’s small towns.

At a time when many rural hospitals continue to make the tough choice to shutter their obstetrics units and stop delivering babies, some have found ways to make their units survive and, sometimes, even thrive.

A spokesman for the Ohio Hospital Association said contingency plans are being made.

Federal authorities are sending a more than $8 million to rural hospitals in Ohio to help with COVID-19 response.

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Holmes County is a patchwork of farmland. Modest houses perch on sloping hills and laundry hangs from clothes lines, flapping in the wind.Around nearly…

A new poll from NPR, Harvard and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation gives a glimpse into rural life in America today, finding that many people living in rural communities live on the edge financially.

People in Fort Scott, Kan., depended on their local hospital for more than a century. In December, the hospital closed. Fort Scott residents now are trying to cope with life without it.