- Weathering the Storm Together: Community Resiliency Hubs Hold the Promise of Local Self-Sufficiency and Supportive Mutual Aid
- Virginia Tech Researchers Bring Rural Families into the Nation's Largest Study of Early Brain and Child Development
- Expanding Access to Cancer Care for Rural Veterans
- VA: Veterans Rural Health Advisory Committee, Notice of Meeting
- Scaling Rural Wellness with Clever Collaboration
- Stroudwater Associates Enhances Rural Healthcare Dashboard with New Data to Support State Rural Transformation Grant Applications
- Harvest Season Is Here: Busy Times Call for Increased Focus on Safety and Health
- HHS Dispatches More Than 70 Public Health Service Officers to Strengthen Care in Tribal Communities
- Wisconsin Rural Hospitals Team up to Form Network
- CMS Launches Landmark $50 Billion Rural Health Transformation Program
- American Heart Association Provides Blood Pressure Kits at Southeast Arkansas Regional Libraries to Support Rural Health
- Broadening Access to Minimally Invasive Surgery Could Narrow Rural-Urban Health Gaps
- Instead of Selling, Some Rural Hospitals Band Together To Survive
- Help Line Gives Pediatricians Crucial Mental Health Information to Help Kids, Families
- Rural Health: A Strategic Opportunity for Governors
CMS Pauses all Medicare Hospice and Home Health Enrollments
Identifying Medicare hospice and home health providers as “high-risk” for fraud, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a six-month moratorium on new enrollment for providers, effective My 2026, as part of the Administration’s Anti-Fraud Task Force work.
For more information, please review the Federal Register notice for hospices and for home health.
Transforming Rural Hospitals Through Telehealth Partnerships Playbook Available
Transforming Rural Hospitals Through Telehealth Partnerships is a playbook created by the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), a HRSA-funded Telehealth Center of Excellence.
The playbook draws on real-world examples that offer actionable tactics for implementing and transforming telehealth partnerships within health systems.
Transforming Rural Health: Strategies from the Field – Rural Telehealth
Adding to their series of rural-relevant strategies for health providers, the Georgia Health Policy Center released a new brief discussing telehealth access, policy considerations, and barriers for rural communities such as lack of digital infrastructure.