A lack of access to vital cancer screenings in Georgia is making a splash in the state legislature.

A recent op-ed out of Tennessee displays the way that patients are continually let down by the 340B program designed to protect them.

Gardeners in Panacea, Florida are banding together to provide accessible, nutritious, and affordable food amidst a food desert.

Utility costs in Delaware are expected to increase in order to combat per-and-polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

When a Bar Harbor hospital announced the closure of their obstetric care department because of declining birth rates, the nurses of the department staged a public meeting encouraging their lawmakers to make an investment in rural maternity healthcare.

Small independent grocery stores allow rural communities to thrive without the influence of big retail providers. Often, these small grocers are the only thing that keep these communities from being classified as food deserts.

A recent study conducted by the National Pharmaceutical Council examined the shortcomings of the 340B system, highlighting how geography, facilities, and market power affect the windfalls collected by 340B hospitals.

A recent study investigated the effects of water privatization, or the transfer of public water systems into private companies, as a potential force for water access equality.

Due to faulty technology, Colorado has higher food assistance processing times than many other states, ranking in the bottom five states in the country.

A recent OBGYN closure in Minneapolis, MN, brings attention to the problem that also plagues rural maternity care: maternity care providers are pouring their money into whiter, wealthier suburbs while abandoning urban and rural patients.

Rural maternity wards see fewer births every year, meaning many of them are on the chopping block for large hospital networks looking to cut costs.

Large non-profit healthcare providers cite a decrease in patient population and high upkeep costs as reasons for closing their rural treatment centers, but the true reason is financial problems stemming from a lack of payments from private health plans.

A recent report from the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spearheaded by U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the committee, examines the areas of the federal 340B program that need reform.

Oregon has seen an increase in food insecurity following the COVID-19 Pandemic, with more residents facing food insecurity in 2023 than in 2020.

A February 2025 report from The Chartis Center for Rural Health finds that 46% of all United States rural hospitals operate in the red. Rural hospital closures illustrate the Health Equity gap in America.

Food insecurity is growing in the state of Michigan, with it’s capital city, Detroit being classified as a long time food desert.

In the last decade, there has been a nationwide trend of hospitals suspending their maternity care services, citing lower birth rates, hospital consolidation, and financial factors as their reasons to stop providing this life-saving care.

Small towns in Colorado are facing a costly fix to a problem in their water. The current uncertainty surrounding federal spending during the early days of the Trump administration only adds to the financial risk involved in PFAS removal.

According to the USDA, four neighborhoods in Norwich, Connecticut, fall under the category of food deserts

An article for Real Clear Health suggests that the best way to cut government spending is to reform the 340B drug program.