Critical access hospitals are vital to rural health care in Montana. But what are they?

Nearly 30 years ago, on the heels of widespread rural hospital closures, federal lawmakers took a key step to preserve health care access in the nation’s most remote areas.

Talking health care: A conversation with Max Baucus on laws that shaped rural hospitals

We sat down with Montana’s longest-serving U.S. senator to discuss the past and future of critical access hospitals and rural health care. Here’s what he had to say.