rural healthcare

Freeman Health System, based in Joplin, Missouri announced plans to build a 50-bed hospital in Kansas despite trends of hospitals downsizing and closing.

As COVID-19 cases have increased exponentially in the U.S., CDC guidelines have led healthcare providers across the country to cancel outpatient…

As COVID-19 cases have increased exponentially in the U.S., CDC guidelines have led healthcare providers across the country to cancel outpatient…

On a sunny afternoon in Sedalia, Jennifer and Matt Boatright escorted some unusual visitors into a pasture on their farm. They opened the heavy gate and…

The MU School of Medicine was awarded nearly $5 million in grant money to enhance existing medical programs in rural Missouri, the school announced…

Western Missouri Medical Center is set to close one of its family practice clinics in Holden on March 3.Forty-one positions are set to be eliminated from…

Veterans in some rural areas have to travel hundreds of miles on empty interstates to get health care, losing a day of work or sometimes two. A new program lets them see nearby doctors instead.

Barring a congressional miracle, Medicare payments to health care providers throughout the country will see a 2 percent reduction come Friday. That amount…

The Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services plans to hold weekly rural flu clinics throughout the county, starting Oct. 11.…