American Hospital Association April 21, 2020
The Bipartisan Policy Center today released a new report examining the immense challenges facing the U.S. rural health care system as highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The BPC’s Rural Health Task Force has developed recommendations over the last year to stabilize and improve the urgent problems challenging rural communities, including improving access to telehealth, offering short-term stabilization for struggling rural hospitals and providing multiple pathways to transform into models that are designed to meet the needs of individual communities.
The report also includes recommendations for enhanced payments to keep obstetric units open and strategies to strengthen the rural health care workforce.
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