Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic this spring, Pastor Nancy White has shifted the way members of her congregation at the Milton Methodist Church in Milton, West Virginia, worship together. Initially, the virus closed the church, but during the summer months, White began to provide recorded sermons over Facebook […]
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A start-up, backed by nearly half-billion-dollar investment, seeks to create living wages and sustainable agricultural practices in the region. Some worry about the impact on traditional farmers and others about the source of the funding. AppHarvest, the brainchild of Jonathan Webb, son of Corbin, Kentucky, hopes to deliver indoor, large-scale […]
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Rural hospitals started reshaping their finances around millions of dollars in relief that Congress appropriated to them through the CARES Act. Then, leaders say, the Department of Health and Human Services started changing the rules. Late changes to how hospitals may use coronavirus relief money may mean some rural hospitals […]
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For rural patients already struggling with access to mental health care, the long term effects of the pandemic could mean even greater barriers in receiving the help they need. As COVID cases rise in rural areas, a new report found that one in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days […]
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Most rural hospitals did not have large numbers of COVID-19 patients this spring and summer. The current record-breaking surge in rural areas will likely be different. Most rural hospitals didn’t get inundated with COVID-19 patients during the spring and summer surges of the pandemic. But the accelerating spread of the […]
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Rising economic pressures during the pandemic and limited access to transportation contributed to a rise in physical violence and abuse in rural households. When the state of Pennsylvania locked down for the coronavirus in March, K found herself stranded with an abusive husband and four children. She knew she couldn’t […]
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