Tag: healthcare
Lack of access to hospitals, grocery stores is killing rural residents:...
Rural Americans are more likely to suffer from conditions like heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and hypertension, and more likely to die from those afflictions, the USDA’s Economic Research Service concluded in a study released in March.
Challenges in rural healthcare discussed by Pa. legislators
If rural hospitals like the ones Dr. Beth Piccione oversees in Lawrence and Mercer counties aren’t supported, vulnerable people won’t be just inconvenienced, “they’ll be in dire straits.”
Paying the price for being sick, old or poor in rural...
If you’re elderly, poor and ill in rural America, the odds that you will receive proper healthcare are dwindling with each passing year.
