Rural Communities

Jamie Smith started the Elkins Community Network newsletter during COVID and has been running it largely alone ever since. Now she's looking for volunteers to help keep it going.

The Arkansas Teacher Corps received a $5.1 million Walton Family Foundation grant to fund 114 new fellowships, targeting teacher shortages in rural and high-poverty school districts.

UAMS Assistant Professor Jennifer Andersen explains how delivering family-centered diabetes self-management education via telehealth is improving outcomes and reducing barriers for rural Arkansans with Type 2 diabetes.

The Robert A. Winn Excellence in Clinical Trials Award is funding early-career physicians and students to expand diversity in cancer research, aiming to bring clinical trials to rural and underrepresented communities.

A University of Minnesota report shows seven Arkansas counties have lost obstetric services since 2010, adding to 40 with no maternity care. Researchers say rural communities are hardest hit and outline policy fixes.

Two Arkansas groups held a town hall Saturday as part of the nationwide Families First: 50-State Day of Peaceful Action, focusing on the Trump administration’s proposed reconciliation bill, the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’

February is heart health month and officials with the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute are sharing warning signs and tips to prevent fatal heart disease.

In this week's edition of the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal report, Roby Brock talks with Heartland Forward executive vice president, Angie Cooper, about the policy think-and-do tank's increased commitment to its student-centered program "rootEd Arkansas."

The first year of the UAMS Family Medicine rural residency program is nearing the completion of its first year. Participating residents in the program will spend more than 50% of their time in the program at hospitals in Carroll County. The program’s director, Dr. Ronald Brimberry, came to the Anthony and Susan Hui news Studio to talk with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the program.

There are roughly 60 million Americans living in rural parts of the country, about 20% of them over 65 years old. Jennifer Conner is vice president of rural health for Health Strategies for the American Heart Association. She visited Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams to talk about an urgent need to address health in rural America, where people tend to have shorter lives due to a lack of access to health care.