Tools and Insights to Help Rural Hospitals Improve Health Care

Rural health care leadership has never been more complex. Financial pressure, workforce shortages, stakeholder expectations and regulatory demands are testing leaders across Missouri. In this episode, Nate Blackford, Senior Vice President of Membership Services at the Missouri Hospital Association and former president of Mosaic Medical Center in Maryville, helps kick off the new Leading Rural Health Care podcast. Blackford shares lessons learned from leading a rural hospital through system transition and the pandemic, talks about the challenges facing leaders and ways to address them and explains how the Missouri Hospital Association can be a support resource.