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How to Reach the Next Generation of Health Care Workers with Hannibal Regional Healthcare System

In this conversation, Susan Wathen, vice president of human resources at Hannibal Regional Healthcare System, discusses their unique approaches to finding and retaining future health care employees.
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A National Staffing Emergency in Rural Health Care

Attracting and retaining skilled health care workers in rural settings is more difficult than ever before, with increasing competition from other employers and dwindling applications.
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Improving Maternal and Infant Services in Rural Iowa

Millions of women across the United States have no access to maternal health care, particularly in rural areas that lack obstetric services.
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Building a Rural Nursing Workforce With Fisher-Titus Medical Center

Building a robust nursing workforce is hugely important in providing quality care to patients, but poses unique challenges in rural Ohio.

Retaining A Rural Nursing Workforce: It Takes A Village

Attracting and retaining nurses presents a major workforce challenge, particularly in rural health care settings. At the University of Vermont Health Network, leaders realized that the ongoing nursing shortage crisis required creative solutions, including investment in the well-being of the nursing staff.

Advocating for Rural Health Providers

In this episode, three AHA rural health care policy experts discuss the 2023 rural advocacy agenda for Congress and the Administration.
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Leadership Dialogue Series: Peggy Abbott from Ouachita County Medical Center

Recently, the hospital leadership team of Ouachita County Medical Center in Camden, Ark., made the “heart-wrenching decision” to close a rural health clinic that the hospital had operated for 25 years.
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Surging Input Costs Create Many Challenges for Hospitals and Health Systems

In this podcast that highlights a new report from the AHA detailing these factors, Philip Pandolph, president and CEO, Meadville (PA) Medical Center and Chair of the AHA Rural Health Services Committee, explains how rising costs for supplies and equipment, drugs, and labor, along with inflation and razor thin margins has left his hospital vulnerable.
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Rural Hospital Offers Flexibility to Recruit Physicians

In this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Elisa Arespacochaga, vice president of the AHA Physician Alliance, talks with Benjamin Anderson, former CEO of Kearny County Hospital in Lakin, Kan., about how his hospital took a chance on an unorthodox approach to recruit physicians, including offering four-day work weeks and limited on-call commitment.