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Hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 are on the rise in Missouri, especially in parts of the outstate with fewer hospital resources.
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The VA said not enough of Dent County's 1,000-plus veterans chose the clinic for health care, and without a certain number of patients, it was not viable to stay open.
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Stroke patients in rural hospitals fare far worse than urban patients, according to new research from Washington University.Based on the records of nearly…
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Salem Memorial District Hospital, a 25-bed facility in Dent County, is ready for coronavirus patients.Mike Gruenberg, director of disaster preparedness at…
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When Pinnacle Regional Hospital in Boonville closed recently, it became the seventh rural hospital to shut its doors in Missouri since 2010.In that same…
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Iron County is one of the state’s least healthy counties, according to the Missouri Health Atlas.So when Iron County Medical Center in Pilot Knob, about…
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Lee Ann Stuart still wears her nursing scrubs, even though the only work she’s been doing since Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center closed June 11 is to...
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Rural hospitals are more likely to close in states such as Missouri that have not expanded Medicaid.A recent report from the pro-Affordable Care Act…
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Taja Welton is ready for her daughter to be born. She’s moved into a bigger house, one with room for a nursery. She has a closet full of pink, Minnie...
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$1.25 million. That’s the size of the bill that could have shuttered the only public hospital in rural Pemiscot County, Missouri in August 2013.