Rural issues
This year Montana saw its population grow to more than 1.1 million residents, with more than 720,000 living in designated rural areas.
There are many significant milestones in our nation’s history of voting.
On this episode, I talk with Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., CEO and president of Dartmouth Health. Conroy also is the Chair-elect Designate of the AHA Board of Trustees.
Some 46 million rural residents across the U.S. depend on their area hospital as their primary – and often only – source of accessible medical care.
As an increasing number of rural hospitals have been forced to shut their doors for good, difficult choices face those that remain open. Get the read on the current landscape from Jeff Subler, president and CEO of Wayne HealthCare in Greenville, Ohio, which serves a rural and agricultural…
As Congress begins to focus on its end of the year agenda for 2022, America’s hospitals and health systems respectfully request that you consider the following priorities.
Advocacy
Every year, a Rural Advocacy Agenda presented by the AHA to Congress lays out the legislative and regulatory priorities for rural hospitals. These currently include:
Representatives from AHA’s Rural Health Services Committee met in person on September 15-16, 2022 in Washington, DC.