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Chair File: Overcoming Challenges, Advancing Innovation in Rural Health Care

All hospital and health system leaders are committed to delivering the best possible care to the people we serve while navigating the changes and challenges we face.
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Perspective: Supporting Our Rural Hospitals and Communities

In Bellingham, Wash., the PeaceHealth clinic is using community health workers, or promotoras, to help educate farmworkers in rural communities about the importance of getting the COVID-19 vaccine. 
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Chair File: Advancing Health and Quality Care in Rural Communities

For the 61 million people who live in rural America, their local hospital provides essential services and programs to advance their health and the health of their communities.
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Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Importance of Advocacy and Storytelling in Rural Health with Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center

In this Leadership Dialogue, I’m joined by Lori Wightman, R.N., CEO of Bothwell Regional Health Center, in Sedalia, Mo. Lori and I discuss working in a “family atmosphere” unique to a rural hospital and navigating the same pressures that face urban hospitals.
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Chair File: Rural Health — Caring for Our Neighbors

Leading a rural hospital can feel like you are battling alone, but together with a unified voice we can advocate for what our rural patients need.
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Chair File: Leadership Dialogue — Strengthening Rural Health Care with Jennifer Havens

On this episode, I talk with Jennifer Havens, CEO of UnityPoint Health – Grinnell Regional Medical Center, a 49-bed hospital serving several counties in Iowa.
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Chair File: Celebrating the ‘Power of Rural’ and Keeping Rural Hospitals Strong

Every November, we celebrate National Rural Health Day to raise awareness of the challenges facing rural hospitals and health systems and help highlight the innovative work they are doing to preserve access to high-quality, affordable care.
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Chair File: Recognizing the ‘Power of Rural’ in Advancing Health

This Thursday is National Rural Health Day, a time to celebrate “the power of rural.”
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Chair File: Ensuring Rural Hospitals and Communities Are Healthy

Nearly 1,200 health care leaders from rural hospitals, health systems and health clinics, as well as rural associations and community health organizations, will convene Feb. 19–22 in San Antonio for the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference.
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Chair File: The Powerful, Positive Impact of Rural Hospitals

Thursday is National Rural Health Day. It’s an opportunity to focus on the vital work that rural hospitals and health systems are doing each and every day to preserve access to high-quality, affordable care.