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Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:48 PM EST
|By WSFA Staff
Georgiana Medical Center will close in just days, not weeks.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:44 PM EST
|By Mark Bullock
What’s going on inside our hospitals may be a better way to assess the current state of the pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:33 PM EST
|By WSFA Staff
It was news the town of Georgiana didn’t want to hear. The community is already feeling the effects of empty storefronts downtown. Now, residents are losing their hospital, one of just two in Butler County.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:24 PM EST
|By Lydia Nusbaum
A new rule change was announced this month is expected to help financially struggling hospitals.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:17 PM EST
|By Lydia Nusbaum
Alabama hospitals will receive $78 million in extra reimbursements for treating Medicaid patients.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:04 PM EST
|By Lydia Nusbaum
Thousands of Alabama health care workers are losing their jobs or being furloughed because health care facilities are not allowed to provide elective procedures.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 8:54 PM EST
|By Lydia Nusbaum
There is a renewed push for Medicaid expansion from more than 60 groups amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 8:49 PM EST
|By WSFA Staff
Sen. Doug Jones met with health care leaders Tuesday to talk about solutions to Alabama’s rural health care crisis.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 8:05 PM EST
|By Jennifer Horton
The number of pandemic-related hospitalizations nearly double in two weeks, and the state hospital association warns there's a narrow window to bring down the number of cases before it potentially crashes Alabama's healthcare system.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2021 at 6:36 PM EST
|By Valorie Lawson
Many African Americans living in Alabama are saying they don’t want the shot.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 3:57 PM EST
|By Jamie Grey
In 358 of the 662 counties in the Appalachian and Delta regions, adults had higher-than-average diabetes rates.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 3:42 PM EST
|By Jamie Grey
Cancer claims millions of lives in the U.S. each year. Access to treatment, preventative care and screenings is a unique hardship for some people in rural areas.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 3:26 PM EST
|By Jamie Grey
The Health Resources and Services Administration classifies geographic areas as medically underserved based on them having too few primary care doctors, a high infant mortality rate, high poverty or a high elderly population.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2021 at 1:07 AM EST
|By Valorie Lawson
Many African Americans living in Alabama are saying they don’t want the shot.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 9:38 PM EST
|By Lydia Nusbaum
Some Alabama rural hospitals laid off workers after the statewide health order prohibited elective procedures.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 9:22 PM EST
|By Lydia Nusbaum
Alabama will face challenges the next several months as the massive undertaking begins to vaccinate millions of people.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 9:16 PM EST
|By Jennifer Horton
The current public health crisis will be one of the greatest tests for Alabama’s health care infrastructure.
Updated: Mar. 3, 2021 at 9:03 PM EST
|By Lydia Nusbaum
Ways to strengthen rural health care are expected to be discussed during the 2020 legislative session, which begins on Feb. 4.