rural health

Experts say that offering financial incentives to help new doctors pay off debt is one way to attract them to Georgia’s countryside.

State lawmakers are touring Georgia to hear about barriers to cancer care, starting in Gainesville, where providers shared challenges facing rural patients and clinics.

State leaders want to ease restrictions on rural hospitals in the face of a growing healthcare crisis.

In Georgia and across the country, foreign-born doctors are filling in the gaps where providers are scarce. As part of a special report, Georgia Health…

Amidst a trend of rural hospital closings and doctor shortages, Clay County in southwest Georgia is losing its only drug store. Residents are "heartsick"…

Georgia has a primary care problem. Six of the state's 159 counties have no practicing physicians, leaving many towns without access to local healthcare.…