Rural hospitals and clinics face potential closures, leaving patients with longer travel times, fewer options and more ...

as does the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. Joshua Tree is not an anomaly. Consider also Needles, a relatively isolated mountain town near the Nevada and Arizona borders. Needles is ...

New federal and state efforts to ... Alyssa Fritz, research and Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Rural Health Research Center, said it was too soon to tell what kind of progress ...