Confronting Rural America's Health Care Crisis
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Offers policy recommendations to stabilize the rural healthcare infrastructure and ensuring local access to care. Discusses strategies to provide financial relief to rural providers, preserve obstetric services, expand telehealth services, and address workforce shortages. Includes brief references to policy actions taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Date
04/2020
Type
Document
Organization
Bipartisan Policy Center Rural Health Task Force
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Access · Closures of healthcare facilities and services · Health workforce supply and demand · Healthcare quality · Maternal health and prenatal care · Policy · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Technology for health and human services · Telehealth