Rx for the Rural Healthcare Workforce and Access to Care

Rural healthcare faces unique challenges. Patients need to travel further to access care and attracting talent to more remote areas can be difficult. Issues that existed before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have grown as the healthcare workforce struggles to regain job losses over the past two years and more facilities close their doors.

In a new episode of Sustaining Capitalism, Tom Morris, Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy in the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services, sits down for a conversation with Jessica Nicholson, Senior Economist at the Committee for Economic Development, the public policy center of The Conference Board. Morris oversees the work of the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, which is charged with advising the HHS Secretary on rural health issues. Morris shares some of the latest trends and how the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy is working to overcome the challenges.