rural hospitals

Sturgis Hospital says it will cease operations Friday, citing financial challenges for rural health care providers. The emergency room, surgery department, outpatient clinics and all other hospital departments will stop seeing patients at noon on June 19.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law by President Trump in July, included more than $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over the next 10 years. Goshen Health's Randy Christophel says, "Today’s healthcare environment requires us to act proactively" to ensure Goshen Health services survive.

The Lincoln Scholars program at Southern Illinois University’s School of Medicine aims to train up-and-coming physicians to work in rural areas by providing them with rural clinical experience right off the bat.

Members of our Indiana 2020 Two-Way texting group told us they wanted to know more about health care costs, what’s being done to address them, and why the…