Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This essay is the first in a four-part series I’m calling Rural Health ...

Despite higher rates of chronic disease in rural areas vs. their urban counterparts, rural America's health care infrastructure is collapsing. Since 2010, about 150 rural hospitals have closed or been ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is making available to states $50 billion in Rural Health Transformation Program funds. Eligible providers, such as rural hospitals, critical access ...

For those of us who have the privilege of working in health care, even incremental progress in the fight to solve our nation’s rural health crisis feels meaningful given the scale of the challenge. I ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a $50 billion investment into improving health care in rural areas in the U.S., the largest ever funding boost of this kind. More than 60 ...

Low population density, land use mix, and connectivity define urban sprawl, and urban sprawl is a major outcome of development strategies in the United States. Since the early 20th century, the ...

The United States is home to a vibrant mosaic of rural landscapes, lifestyles and people. But new research shows there is room for advertisers and media to tell a more complete and authentic story of ...

Despite the Trump administration's efforts to slow federal funding for building electric vehicle chargers across the country, the number of ports is growing, although rural areas are seeing less ...

Policy changes, technology limitations and problems in mapping data will all, in some way, limit the nation’s ability to bring broadband to rural America, industry watchers said. The states that have ...

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to slow federal funding for building electric vehicle chargers across the country, the number of ports is growing, although rural areas are seeing less ...