Covid Worsened Shortages of Doctors and Nurses. Five Years On, Rural Hospitals Still Struggle. - KFF Health News The U.S. faces a crucial shortage of medical providers, especially in rural areas. The problem has been building for a while, experts say, but the pandemic accelerated it by pushing many doctors over ...

#Covid only worsened existing practitioner shortages in #HPSAs #MUAs, especially #Rural areas. These regions struggle with ongoing #RuralHospitalClosures #AccesstoCare challenges.

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For Many Rural Women, Finding Maternity Care Outweighs Concerns About Abortion Access - KFF Health News A legislative effort to expand access to prenatal care in rural Oregon with mobile clinics was scuttled because those clinics would have provided abortions in rural areas. Opposition to the proposal s...

And we're off and running in 2025! #AccesstoCare #MaternalHealth #HealthEquity #RuralHealth #HPSAs are major priorities for populations that must be addressed!
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