Rural PA vets risk losing health care

Pennsylvania’s rural communities are suffering from a healthcare provider shortage that has reached crisis proportions. As a new analysis by the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute documents, over half of the Commonwealth’s 67 counties have partial or severe shortages of primary care providers.

In a new piece for The Altoona Mirror, VHPI Senior Policy Analyst Russell Lemle digs into the data and traces the dire healthcare picture in Pennsylvania, where, over the last two decades, more than 30 of the state’s rural hospitals have shuttered or reduced services, leaving entire communities stranded.

Read his piece here.