/tags/rural-hospitals Rural hospitals en-US Copyright Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:15:00 GMT /2024-03-19/rural-hospital-closures-pose-health-economic-challenges-for-ohio Two rural hospitals in southwest Ohio recently announced they鈥檙e cutting services. It鈥檚 part of a larger trend of dwindling healthcare options in Ohio鈥檚 small towns. Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:15:00 GMT /2024-03-19/rural-hospital-closures-pose-health-economic-challenges-for-ohio Kendall Crawford /2024-02-26/as-more-rural-hospitals-stop-delivering-babies-some-are-determined-to-make-it-work 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. Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:00:00 GMT /2024-02-26/as-more-rural-hospitals-stop-delivering-babies-some-are-determined-to-make-it-work Natalie Krebs /coronavirus/2021-09-13/southern-ohio-hospitals-icus-at-or-near-capacity-due-to-covid-surge A spokesman for the Ohio Hospital Association said contingency plans are being made. Mon, 13 Sep 2021 20:19:36 GMT /coronavirus/2021-09-13/southern-ohio-hospitals-icus-at-or-near-capacity-due-to-covid-surge Jo Ingles /news/2021-07-14/feds-send-8-million-to-rural-ohio-hospitals-for-covid-response Federal authorities are sending a more than $8 million to rural hospitals in Ohio to help with COVID-19 response. Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:55:55 GMT /news/2021-07-14/feds-send-8-million-to-rural-ohio-hospitals-for-covid-response Nick Evans /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2020-04-16/rural-hospitals-and-covid-19 This episode originally ran on April 1, 2020.Ohio has ordered that hospitals cancel non-essential surgeries to free up resources in advance of the鈥� Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:23:40 GMT /all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2020-04-16/rural-hospitals-and-covid-19 All Sides Staff /news/2020-04-09/ohio-valley-faces-pandemic-with-health-system-hollowed-by-hospital-closures As new cases of coronavirus mount in the Ohio Valley, health officials are bracing for an onslaught of patients and what could be unprecedented demand for鈥� Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:14:13 GMT /news/2020-04-09/ohio-valley-faces-pandemic-with-health-system-hollowed-by-hospital-closures Liam Niemeyer /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2020-04-01/rural-hospitals-and-covid-19 Ohio has ordered that hospitals cancel non-essential surgeries to free up resources in advance of the expected surge of COVID-19 patients.Those are the鈥� Wed, 01 Apr 2020 11:45:01 GMT /show/all-sides-with-ann-fisher/2020-04-01/rural-hospitals-and-covid-19 /news/2019-08-27/amish-paradise-living-uninsured-but-healthy-in-rural-ohio 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鈥� Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:37:17 GMT /news/2019-08-27/amish-paradise-living-uninsured-but-healthy-in-rural-ohio Paige Pfleger /news-partners/2019-05-21/poll-many-rural-americans-struggle-with-financial-insecurity-access-to-health-care 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. Tue, 21 May 2019 09:01:00 GMT /news-partners/2019-05-21/poll-many-rural-americans-struggle-with-financial-insecurity-access-to-health-care Patti Neighmond, Joe Neel /npr-news/npr-news/2019-05-14/no-mercy-how-a-kansas-town-is-grappling-with-its-hospitals-closure 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. Tue, 14 May 2019 09:01:00 GMT /npr-news/npr-news/2019-05-14/no-mercy-how-a-kansas-town-is-grappling-with-its-hospitals-closure Sarah Jane Tribble