Rural health

Many parts of Oregon are lacking in mental health care providers, especially in rural counties.

Congress restores critical access status for Glenn Medical Center, but the shuttered California hospital still needs $40-50 million to reopen.

State officials said they were pleased with the award, which comes as Oregon braces for billions in Medicaid cuts over the coming decade.

Senior Californians in rural communities are dying by suicide at troubling rates—struggling with pain, cut off from doctors and mental health care, with guns at hand. Access to care and safety planning would help, experts say.

In October, Shasta County officials came out against a state grant application to build a large behavioral health facility. Some have now changed their minds.

The proposed True North campus could bring hundreds of jobs and new crisis beds, but county leaders say it doesn’t serve Shasta’s most urgent needs.

Reaching a doctor can be difficult in rural Klamath County. A new mobile clinic is bringing care closer to home.

Most Oregon hospitals have been bleeding cash for years, and at least two are already set to close their obstetrics units.

Glenn Medical Center’s ‘heartbreaking’ closure will put 150 people out of work and send rural patients to neighboring counties for care.

The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across all of California. Two Inland Empire lawmakers are urging state officials to take action to save a hospital in Blythe.

A previous Bay Area Hospital board was working on an agreement that would have Tennessee-based Quorum Health run operations.

Klamath Falls may someday become home to Oregon's second public medical school.