American Heart Association & Get With The Guidelines® Collaborate To Improve Care For Rural Hospitals
Alex Strauss Alex Strauss

American Heart Association & Get With The Guidelines® Collaborate To Improve Care For Rural Hospitals

People in rural communities live an average of three years fewer and have a 40% higher likelihood of developing heart disease (14.2%) compared with their counterparts in small metropolitan (11.2%) and urban (9.9%) areas, a gap that has grown over the past decade. 1 Rural communities face the added challenge of a critical shortage of health care professionals, including public health workers, leaving many people vulnerable to increased morbidity and mortality that could be prevented with appropriate identification and treatment.

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