For many rural hospitals, hosting formal residency programs is not feasible given the financial and structural resources required to train new medical school graduates. This poses a significant ...
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Millions of dollars are coming to Missouri to help combat the physician shortage in rural areas. Over the past decade, 18 Missouri hospitals have closed, and all but one of the state’s ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – Missouri is getting millions of ...
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Jackie Rosen (D-Nev.) have introduced the Specialty Physicians Advancing Rural Care (SPARC) Act, a bipartisan bill designed to address the critical shortage of ...
(This story was updated to correct an incorrect spelling of Dr. Wever's first name.) When surgeons are as scarce as they are in some parts of rural Ohio, sometimes you have to grow them yourselves. Dr ...