Rural Health Care

General practitioners who come from — or train in — rural areas are more likely to practice in rural areas long term. Utah is getting $1.5 million federal dollars to support those programs.

In other news, Tooele County Search and Rescue saved a dog that fell into a mountain mine over the weekend. And, a hospital in Price is getting a behavioral health unit as soon as next month.

Idaho consistently ranks at or near the bottom of states in physicians per capita. A medical education partnership with the University of Utah hopes to change that.

The rural healthcare shortage has hit some tribal nations especially hard. One tribe in Nevada has found a solution: a doctor's office on wheels.

Nearly 80 percent of Utah's counties are facing a medical-professional shortage, making the state the third worst in the country for the doctor-to-patient…

Rural hospital closures are on the rise in the U.S. Utah is in better standing than the rest of the country, but since it has a large rural population,…