How does the lack of rural health services take its toll on both patients and practitioners? Who will step up to confront this issue?
For this four-part series, the Rural News Network (RNN) brought newsrooms together to report on health inequities in rural communities nationally and in distinct parts of the country — Hawaii, North Carolina and Northern California.
Read stories in the collaboration below.
Four INN members who participate in the Rural News Network (RNN) highlighted and provided solutions for inequities in rural health care.
Specialized health care is scarce in California’s North State area — a region with significantly worse access than the rest of the state.
Lanai deals with hardships of obtaining mental health care without a resident psychiatrist on the island.
In North Carolina, about 4 million people don’t have access to reliable broadband service. What does this mean for rural residents’ health care?
People in rural areas often have to go without specialist care or travel long distances to access it.
This reporting is part of a collaboration with the Institute for Nonprofit News, The Daily Yonder, Carolina Public Press, Honolulu Civil Beat and Shasta Scout. Support from The National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM) Foundation made the project possible.
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