Lindsey Corey

Current and potential funding support caught the attention of the more than 450 National Rural Health Association members attending the Rural Health Policy Institute this week in D.C. Earlier today, Mary Wakefield, PhD, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) administrator and former National Rural Health Association member, outlined workforce, education, health information technology, telehealth and [...]

It’s been six months since the White House announced its new Rural Council. We know health care impacts everything from a community’s life expectancy to its economy, but we didn’t know how the new council planned to impact rural health across America. So the National Rural Health Association’s  Rural Roads magazine asked Doug McKalip, White [...]

Former U.S. Census Bureau Director Steve Murdock, PhD, kicked off the National Rural Health Association’s 17th Annual Rural Multiracial and Multicultural Health Conference in Daytona Beach this morning. He discussed the socioeconomic implications of the country’s changing demographics, and said “we have markedly increased inequality in America.” “Education is, of course, the answer,” Murdock told [...]

Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced it will extend, by one year, the deadline for meeting stage 2 meaningful use requirements to providers who qualify as stage 1 meaningful users in 2011. Under current rules for the Medicare portion of the electronic health-record system meaningful use incentive program created by the American [...]