Improving Rural Healthcare by Creating Academic- and Nonacademic-Rural Hospital Partnerships Based on Community Health Needs Assessments and Technological Needs

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Explores the effect of creating partnerships between rural and urban healthcare systems to bolster economic and technological resiliency in struggling rural hospitals. Highlights the way partnerships with academic and nonacademic urban hospitals can help rural hospitals facilitate workforce recruitment and retention, access specialty care, and improve technological access, among other factors.

Suhas Babu, James N. Weinstein, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, William B. Weeks

Journal of Rural Health, 41(1), e12927

01/2025

Access · Health workforce supply and demand · Hospitals · Population health · Recruitment and retention of health professionals · Service delivery models · Specialty care