Leadership at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is working with states to develop plans to use the $50 billion ...

Tucked into President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill, the new rural health fund has state leaders rushing to ...

Key Takeaways The "One Big Beautiful Bill" includes a new funding program, the Rural Health Transformation Program, which will allocate $50 billion nationwide over five years.The program is designed ...

FILE - The vacant Martin County General Hospital sits abandoned behind a chain since being closed in August of 2023 in Williamston, N.C., shown, April 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker, File) ...

In a last-ditch effort to turn its fortunes around, Anson General applied to be a Rural Emergency Hospital, a new type of hospital Congress created in 2023 to keep rural hospitals afloat. The ...

In late May, Greenville, N.C.-based ECU Health shared its plan to reopen Williamston, N.C.-based Martin General Hospital as the state’s first rural emergency hospital. The plan would also make Martin ...