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Oregon Looking At Taking Control Of Healthcare Marketplace
Oregon Looking At Taking Control Of Healthcare Marketplace
Oregon Looking At Taking Control Of Healthcare Marketplace
Oregon lawmakers are considering whether to bring the healthcare marketplace under state control, instead of healthcare.gov.  Oregonians who don't get health insurance from an employer and aren't eligible for the Oregon Health Plan can buy insurance through the federal website Healthcare.gov.  Chi...
Grange Continues To Grow, Continues To Address Rural Issues
Grange Continues To Grow, Continues To Address Rural Issues
Grange Continues To Grow, Continues To Address Rural Issues
Despite fraternal organizations nationwide struggling to gain and retain members, the National Grange says it is bucking that trend.  During the organization’s 156th Annual Convention in Sparks, NV, last month, Betsy Huber, President of the Grange announced membership grew more than 3% between July 2021 and June 2022, despite pressures from the pandemic.   Huber ...
NW Hospitals Benefit From Emergency Rural Health Care Grants
NW Hospitals Benefit From Emergency Rural Health Care Grants
NW Hospitals Benefit From Emergency Rural Health Care Grants
The first in a series of USDA emergency rule health care grant awards have been announced. "We're awarding $43 million in grants to 93 rural health care organizations and community groups across 22 States,” Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack noted during his recent announcement.  “These i ...
Rural Care Economic Challenges
Rural Care Economic Challenges
Rural Care Economic Challenges
"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 ...
Grange Looks To Recapture Its Voice
Grange Looks To Recapture Its Voice
Grange Looks To Recapture Its Voice
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 ...
Rural Development Working To Help Small Town Health Organizations
Rural Development Working To Help Small Town Health Organizations
Rural Development Working To Help Small Town Health Organizations
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 ...
NMPF Encourages Farm County To Get Vaccinated
NMPF Encourages Farm County To Get Vaccinated
NMPF Encourages Farm County To Get Vaccinated
In an open letter penned earlier this month, the National Milk Producers Federation is urging farmers and ranchers to get the COVID-19 vaccination. The NMPF’s Theresa Sweeney-Murphy, said vaccination rates in rural America are lagging behind their urban and suburban counterparts, which is problematic for a variety of reasons. " ...

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