Rural Missouri Health

Missouri will receive more than $200 million in federal funding starting this year, through a new Rural Health Transformation Program. The money is aimed at strengthening rural health systems, expanding access to care, and improving coordination

While outsiders blame low rural vaccination rates on vaccine hesitancy, local health officials say the state’s distribution system has made providing shots difficult.

In the past several weeks, as metro Kansas City began working to avoid being overwhelmed by Covid-19 like big cities elsewhere, rural places like Wright...