A Kaiser Family Foundation report released last week found rural residents are among the most hesitant about vaccines.
Health care resources in rural Pennsylvania are stretched thin.
In many ways, rural communities have become the face of the nation’s opioid epidemic. Drug overdose deaths are more common by population size in rural areas than in urban ones. And rural doctors prescribe opioids more often by far. Meanwhile, rural Americans have fewer alternatives to treat their very real pain, and they disproportionately lack access to effective addiction medication such as buprenorphine.
By Bram Sable-Smith/Wisconsin Public Radio Nearly half of rural hospitals in Pennsylvania are operating in negative margins and are in danger of closing.
