Florida Senate President Ben Albritton opened the 2025 legislative session with big plans for the state’s rural areas. “We’ve seen tremendous economic growth in urban areas of Florida,” he told ...

Florida did not expand Medicaid as most states did, so the impact may be lesser than other places, but reductions loom.

Rural communities transform from medical research's forgotten citizens to active contributors to scientific advancement ...

This essay is the first in a 4-part series I’m calling Rural Health Resilience—a look at the state of rural health in America ...

All total, Florida healthcare expenditures total $132.5 billion, ... As of January 2012, there were 147 Medicare-certified rural health clinics in Florida, the ninth most in the country. 1. 8.

Florida also had the highest average bills for those visits, ranging from $1,900 to $2,600 depending on the age of the child, the report said. Medicaid covered 80.6% of them. For children ages 14 ...

The Alachua County Organization for Rural Needs shuttered its medical clinic in Bradford County in October 2019 because of funding cuts.Its dental clinic, in Brooker, survived those cuts, but then ...

A new report has found that the majority of Florida rural hospitals do not provide labor and delivery services. The Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform analyzed federal data and found ...

Clark Health, a Florida-based rural health clinic (RHC) and eClinicalWorks customer for over a decade, experienced growth in provider count and staff, and success in timely payment collections.

Peddie runs the only ambulance in Liberty County, a sprawling, sparsely populated community in Florida’s rural Big Bend, where as of last week just 23.9% of residents were fully vaccinated.

DeSantis announced the state is providing $2 million to 18 rural school districts in Florida to increase access to telehealth and mental health services. The event was held at the governor's mansion.