OPINION: Rural health care offers some unique challenges

Delivering affordable, accessible and needed health care services can be difficult in any community, but rural areas pose their own particular challenges. On Delmarva, major providers are seeking ways to connect residents, medical practitioners and facilities in beneficial and affordable ways.

McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield, Maryland's smallest hospital, experienced the largest statewide per-capita drop in patient admissions in 2012. As a result, it has been forced to impose the largest increase in charges because of a program unique to Maryland that is designed to help ...