Rural Health Care and COVID-19, Part 2

In this follow-up to an earlier podcast discussing COVID-19’s impact on rural health care, attorney Ellie Bane speaks with Vonne Jacobs, Principal and Founder, Pharos Healthcare Consulting, Delphine O’Rourke, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP, Andrea Ferrari, Partner, HealthCare Appraisers, Michael Watters, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, Essentia Health, and Steve Clapp, President and CEO, Strategic Healthcare Advisers, about the operational, financial, and regulatory issues that rural providers face as the coronavirus recedes in some communities and surges in others. The panelists discuss how the ongoing COVID-19 crisis affects immediate and long-term strategic planning for rural providers, including opportunities and challenges as models for delivering care shift. They also consider financial implications for facilities and communities, staffing issues, and areas of needed reform from a rural health care provider perspective. From the Public Health System Affinity Group of AHLA's Hospitals and Health Systems Practice Group.Essential Legal Updates, Now in AudioAHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal EducationLearn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.