To tackle a growing problem among young people, and fewer mental health professionals in rural areas, school leaders have joined a pilot project where students can talk with mental health therapists via a two-way video chat. In rural areas, access to mental health services can be limited, sometimes even more […]
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End-of-life caregiving is an ancient practice that’s now re-emerging in the death positivity movement, which urges a shift in thinking about death as natural and not traumatic. Vivette Jeffries-Logan and Omisade Burney-Scott are friends for life—and collaborators in death. Three years ago, when a mutual friend realized she wouldn’t survive […]
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Presidential candidates and other politicians have talked about the rural health crisis in the U.S., but they are not telling rural Americans anything new. Rural Americans know all too well what it feels like to have no hospital and emergency care when they break a leg, go into early labor […]
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Inmates suffering heart attacks, on the verge of diabetic comas and brutalized in jail beatings have been released so sheriffs wouldn’t have to pay for their medical care. Some were rearrested once they had recovered. Michael Tidwell’s blood sugar reading was at least 15 times his normal level when sheriff’s […]
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A lawsuit against West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and officials with the state Department of Health and Human Resources alleges the government has violated the rights of nearly 6,800 children currently in the state’s foster care system. The 100-page-plus complaint alleges the state’s foster care system is failing to protect […]
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Two rural hospitals in Appalachia– one in Wheeling, West Virginia, the other just across the river in Ohio– announced they were closing in mid-August. Altogether, the closures will directly impact about 1,100 jobs. But, indirectly, it could affect the entire economy of the area. “What we found is when a […]
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