Our national Health, Work and Care in Rural America Report underscores the need that rural American communities as a whole have for paid family and medical leave as a health, economic, community development and competitiveness imperative. In this collection of blog posts, we dig deeper to analyze state-level distances to hospital-based health care services and the need for paid leave in selected individual states.
New analysis of distances from Maine's rural communities to six different types of hospital-based health care services shows why long distances to health care services plus lack of paid time off for family, medical or sick leave make paid leave policies a rural health, economic and community imperative.
New analysis of distances from Minnesota's rural communities to six different types of hospital-based health care services shows why long distances to health care services plus lack of paid time off for family, medical or sick leave make paid leave policies a rural health, economic and community imperative.
New analysis of distances from New Mexico's rural communities to six different types of hospital-based health care services shows why long distances to health care services plus lack of paid time off for family, medical or sick leave make paid leave policies a rural health, economic and community imperative.
New analysis of distances from North Carolina's rural communities to six different types of hospital-based health care services shows why long distances to health care services plus lack of paid time off for family, medical or sick leave make paid leave policies a rural health, economic and community imperative.
New analysis of distances from Pennsylvania's rural communities to six different types of hospital-based health care services shows why long distances to health care services plus lack of paid time off for family, medical or sick leave make paid leave policies a rural health, economic and community imperative.
New analysis of distances from Vermont's rural communities to six different types of hospital-based health care services shows why long distances to health care services plus lack of paid time off for family, medical or sick leave make paid leave policies a rural health, economic and community imperative.
New analysis of distances from Virginia's rural communities to six different types of hospital-based health care services shows why long distances to health care services plus lack of paid time off for family, medical or sick leave make paid leave policies a rural health, economic and community imperative.