This essay is the first in a 4-part series I’m calling Rural Health Resilience—a look at the state of rural health in America ...

Hospital closures also mean longer ambulance rides for rural residents. Charlie Brunner, the fire chief in Jackson County in ...

Healthcare experts prepare for the fallout of more than $1 trillion in Medicaid after the passage of President Donald Trump's ...

Rural communities transform from medical research's forgotten citizens to active contributors to scientific advancement ...

Florida did not expand Medicaid as most states did, so the impact may be lesser than other places, but reductions loom.

The University of Florida’s new HealthScreen program will use mobile health vehicles to send community health workers and ...

We identified obstetric service status for every rural and urban short-term acute care hospital in every US state. During 2010–22, seven states had at least 25 percent of hospitals close their ...

Sen. Jason Brodeur, a Lake Mary Republican, previously carried a Senate companion bill ( SB 1568) on allowing electronic ...

Access to obstetric care is a critical determinant of maternal and infant health. However, a new study led by the University ...

Getting older doesn’t mean giving up—and more Floridians deserve access to care that helps them live fully, even in life’s later chapters.

Planned Parenthood’s two Florida affiliates will merge to form a single, unified statewide organization. The new organization ...

Access to obstetric care declined across the US, especially in rural areas, with more than 7 states seeing more than 25% of hospitals lose obstetric services from 2010 to 2022.