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 […]

The Daily Yonder’s team hit the ground running early on in the pandemic, tracking how the coronavirus has impacted rural America through consistently-released data visualizations pinpointing COVID-19 cases and related deaths in rural communities across the country.  The Daily Yonder, from the Center for Rural Strategies, provides news, commentary and […]

This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Dr. Kirk Tucker, chief clinical officer of Adena Health Systems in Chillicothe, Ohio, said a week before Thanksgiving that the health system’s three hospitals in southern Ohio were bombarded with coronavirus patients. But it isn’t just the patients testing positive. The […]

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 […]

When city-dwellers conjure rural America, they envision “the farmer and rancher out in western Nebraska or western Kansas,” said Alan Morgan, CEO of the National Rural Health Association.  “Those guys pioneered the concept of social isolation; they’ve got social distancing down.” Morgan was speaking at the Rural Assembly Everywhere, a […]

Rapid antigen testing is a mess. The federal government pushed it out without a plan, and then spent weeks denying problems with false positives. The promise of antigen tests emerged like a miracle this summer. With repeated use, the theory went, these rapid and cheap coronavirus tests would identify highly […]