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Leveling the Playing Field for Rural Health Providers

Health Leaders | Nursing

Rural health executives share their solutions to healthcare desert challenges. Editor’s note: This article appears in the July-September 2023 edition of HealthLeaders magazine. of full-time NPs seeing Medicare patients and 82% seeing Medicaid patients. Medicare is about 46% and Medicaid is about 14%. What will it take?

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Full Practice Authority: APRN Readiness, Barriers to Practice and Access in South Carolina

American Nurse

Introduction SOUTH CAROLINA is predominately a rural state that consistently demonstrates poor health rankings, due to the lack of Medicaid expansion, healthcare deserts, and a decreasing physician supply. Health rankings demonstrate SC has the 4th highest rate of preterm births among all 50 U.S. Journal of Health Economics.