A new federal project called the Rural Health Transformation Program was designed to address health deserts in rural communities. What is it, and what impact could it have in Indiana?

Lawmakers added a $50 billion program for rural health to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending package with promises it would help plug the hole left by Medicaid cuts. Rural hospital and clinic leaders worry the infusion won’t reach the right places.

Time is tissue in the first responder community, and in rural areas across Indiana, they could be losing too much tissue for EMS responses.

The report by the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform found a growing number of rural hospitals no longer deliver babies.

At a time when many rural hospitals continue to make the tough choice to shutter their obstetrics units and stop delivering babies, some have found ways to make their units survive and, sometimes, even thrive.