Hospital closures also mean longer ambulance rides for rural residents. Charlie Brunner, the fire chief in Jackson County in ...

Rural communities transform from medical research's forgotten citizens to active contributors to scientific advancement ...

Florida did not expand Medicaid as most states did, so the impact may be lesser than other places, but reductions loom.

The University of Florida’s new HealthScreen program will use mobile health vehicles to send community health workers and ...

Sen. Jason Brodeur, a Lake Mary Republican, previously carried a Senate companion bill ( SB 1568) on allowing electronic ...

Some 66 million Americans live in rural areas, according to the 2020 Census, including about 9.1 percent of Florida’s residents, according to American Community Survey data. Florida has 22 open ...

Healthcare experts prepare for the fallout of more than $1 trillion in Medicaid after the passage of President Donald Trump's ...

Getting older doesn’t mean giving up—and more Floridians deserve access to care that helps them live fully, even in life’s later chapters.

We've also launched a virtual behavioral health program in 26 critical access hospitals, helping rural emergency providers connect with mental health specialists in under an hour—improving care ...