The Daily Yonder

3 days ago | dailyyonder.com | Liz Carey

A new analysis has found that access to independent physicians and medical practices is falling in rural areas. Between 2019 and 2024, the number of independent physicians in rural areas fell by 43%, according to a study commissioned by the Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI). The study also found that nearly 9,500 rural physicians left independent practice.

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

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1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Ilana Newman

On Friday, April 25, Sorrell Redford, education director for Montezuma School to Farm Project, heard that their AmeriCorps funding through Serve Colorado would run out following abrupt cuts from the federal government. The agency bought themselves a few extra days by cobbling together two weeks-worth of funds to help ease the transition and possibly, to tide them over until a court reversal.

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Adrienne Washington

This story was originally published by The Maine Monitor. As the warm air of a spring day milled across the acres of pasture along the long dirt road leading through Old Crow Ranch in Durham, Maine, Steve Sinisi and his wife, Seren, settled onto the porch of their farm stand. Sitting just inches apart, they shared laughs and voiced anxieties about their decision to become farmers in rural Maine and spoke of failures and successes.

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Liz Carey

A study released in December of 2024 has found that drones not only can provide rural residents with access to healthcare resources, but that rural people are eager to embrace the new technology. Researcher Ellen Hahn, associate director of AppalTRuST in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, was on the research team for the study that looked at drone delivery of healthcare resources to Appalachian patients that was recently published in Health Promotion Practice.