Aspen Valley Health, a critical access hospital in Colorado, is taking on a role typically reserved for large health systems: serving as an Epic host for other rural providers through the vendor’s ...

A Dec. 20 study published in JAMA from researchers at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University and Providence, R.I.-based Brown University has shed light on financial disparities between critical ...

An aerial drone photo over the fields and dirt road lanes in the fields during the golden light of the morning. Rural residents in the U.S. face much greater challenges in accessing healthcare than ...

Well-functioning hospitals and medical centers are no accident that a team of healthcare professionals bandaged and fixed up in the emergency room. These hospitals have been carefully planned to ...

Nearly 90% of the land in the United States is rural and about one in five people, or some 60 million, live throughout it ...

“Employees carry out our mission every day,” Dan Bjerknes said. “That is not easy; yet day after day they continue to serve.” ...

A study examines the differences in margins and commercial prices between critical access hospitals and other acute care hospitals. Among hospitals facing financial pressures, critical access ...

Cost structures (the ratio of fixed to variable costs) vary across and within industries. Hospital managers and policymakers can make better decisions when they under-stand cost structures, including ...