View the profiles of professionals named "April Simpson" on LinkedIn. By April Simpson, Stateline. Your email is safe with us. The association’s findings are based on an electronic survey representing 1,360 member hospitals across 48 states and Washington, D.C. Before the pandemic, 47% of rural providers operated in the red. Growing evidence suggests that women should receive continuous medical attention during what is now called the “fourth trimester” — a period lasting at least a year after childbirth. April Simpson, a reporter who covers rural issues for Stateline, a news service of the Pew Charitable Trusts. ... 2020 Stateline.org, Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Use our stories and graphics. “There’s significant bed capacity in rural Texas,” Henderson said, “but there aren’t nurses and there aren’t ventilators.”. But nationwide, little has been done to address drunken pedestrian deaths. By April Simpson, Stateline. But 32% of the population is in poor or fair health compared with 18% of Texans, according to the 2019 County Health Rankings State Report from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Palliative sedation, though, has been administered since the hospice care movement began in the 1960s and is legal everywhere. By April Simpson, Stateline.org • Jun 2, 2019 at 5:00 AM WASHINGTON — Agriculture interests this year have successfully lobbied for a host of new state laws to … Inconsistent and unclear date labels are causing U.S. consumers to discard tons of food that is safe to eat. April was a Fulbright fellow in Botswana and Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation. Support PBS NewsHour: Educate your inbox. Stateline Article October 29, 2019. By April Simpson, Stateline.org on Oct 8, 2020. The center has weekly calls with its rural partner hospitals to share information and resources. They’re not seeing large numbers of COVID-19-positive or potentially positive patients, said Lisa Davis, director of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health. “No doubt when this thing’s over, if we don’t reimagine the way we take care of people and the way we fund services, rural hospitals will still have challenges,” Henderson said. The same lethal drug that has been driving the nation’s spiraling opioid epidemic is also causing an historic surge in overdose deaths among cocaine users. Rural hospitals have long been fighting for their survival. Outpatient care accounts for 50-70% of rural hospitals’ income, said Maggie Elehwany, government affairs and policy vice president at the National Rural Health Association. April Simpson, Stateline. “To stay alive, they need patients in the beds,” said Gerard Anderson, professor of health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 1936, roughly 90% of America’s urban areas had access to electricity, while roughly the same proportion of … Nation Apr 19. The list is long: Bethel, Alaska; Garden City, Kansas; Hailey, Idaho; Meridian, Mississippi; Kanab, Utah; Dubois, Wyoming. While aid-in-dying, or “death with dignity,” is now legal in seven states and Washington, D.C., medically assisted suicide retains tough opposition. Pandemic-related federal money has helped struggling rural hospitals stay afloat. In Texas’ COVID-19 hotspots, such as Hidalgo County on the Mexico border closer to the Gulf Coast, hospitals have struggled to find beds for new patients. Shortages prompted Medical Center Health System, a 403-bed facility with multiple clinics throughout Odessa and serving 17 West Texas counties, to decline transfer patients earlier this month from regional hospitals outside of Ector County.