title: Rural areas face woes in health care delivery, try model systems.
abstract: Health planning such as consolidation and closure of facilities and services to contain costs often contradicts rural populations' needs for increased access to better or even basic services/Model programs to meet these needs are discussed.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006307:Health Systems Agencies; D006752:Hospital Planning; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D012424:Rural Population; D014481:United States