health care

This is Agricultural Safety Awareness Week, and many in the farming community are being reminded through Friday to keep safety a priority.  U.S. Agricultural Safety and Health Centers will join Farm Bureaus across the country to promote ag safety this week with the theme of “Lead the Way in Agriculture.”   Each ...

The Biden administration announced late last week a $74 million effort to improve health care facilities in rural communities.  The Rural Development grants will help 143 rural health care organizations expand critical services for three million people in 37 states, Guam and Puerto Rico.  ...

"Since 2010, 135 rural hospitals have closed and an additional 453 are vulnerable to closure," said Rural Development's Xochitl Torres Small as she testified recently before the Senate Ag Committee as they looked at opportunities and challenges in the rural care economy ...

President of the National Grange, Betsy Huber, says the organization is looking to recapture its role as the voice of rural America. During the 155th Annual Session last month in Wichita, KS, Huber pointed out that a couple of generations ago the Grange was the premier advocacy group in D ...

In today's Future of Farming, Cady Zellmer talks about why she would like to be a small-town nurse in the next five years. If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail gvaagen@cherrycreekmedia.com

Cactus Health Services in rural Texas was outgrowing its leased facility in a non-commercial area. "All patients in this two-county wide area and then we also get patients from all the way up in the city of Odessa that's an hour and a half away that come see our federally qualified health center ...

Surveys continue to show rural residents are less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and less likely to want to take the vaccine. However, Ag Secretary, Tom Vilsack, said the government must be more focused on getting the vaccine to rural America, for a variety of reasons ...

The much-anticipated $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is expected to recieve a narrow final approval in the House Wednesday, after the Senate OKed a revised version, last weekend. The bill contains billions more for Ag and food programs ...

A new report from Economic Research Service shows rural residents appear to be more vulnerable to serious infection or death from COVID-19. USDA said since the most recent surge beginning in late September, the highest case rates were in rural counties, particularly those that have no town larger than 2,499 residents ...

A question in the recent Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer finds more farmers say they will get the COVID-19 vaccine. The Ag Economy Barometer for January, released this week, finds producers' attitudes about receiving a COVID-19 vaccine have shifted since the fall, with 58% planning to get vaccinated as soon as possible ...