09/08/2025
🏥 Rural Hospitals at Risk — What’s Being Done?
As Medicaid changes could cut $155B from rural healthcare over the next decade, rural hospitals face tough challenges keeping essential services open.
To help, Congress has launched the Rural Health Transformation Program, investing $50B over 5 years to:
✅ Support ER, maternity, and behavioral health services
✅ Boost EMS response & workforce training
✅ Expand telehealth & remote patient monitoring
✅ Fund recruitment & health tech upgrades
✅ Strengthen rural mental health pipelines
Many hospitals operate on thin margins and serve as lifelines for their communities. Sustaining rural care means investing in the people, tools, and systems that keep it running.
Learn more from the Bipartisan Policy Center:
Congressional changes to Medicaid provider taxes could cut rural health funding by $155B over 10 years. BPC explores how the new $50B Rural Health…