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February 21, 2007 The School of Medicine has published the 2007
edition of the Nevada Rural and Frontier Health Data Book. The
publication offers the most current and comprehensive source of
county-level data on health and healthcare in Nevada. Did you
know that 87 percent of Nevada's land mass is made up of rural
and frontier counties? Just 10 percent of the state's population
lives in those counties. These 268,542 Nevadans go to great
lengths travelling to receive healthcare. Spread out over 95,431
square miles of frontier, the average distance most rural
Nevadans must travel to reach one of the sixteen acute care
hospitals in rural counties or to reach one of the closest
tertiary care hospitals in Reno, Las Vegas or Salt Lake City is
114 miles. These surprising statistics are just a few of the
healthcare facts you will find in the 2007 edition of the Nevada
Rural and Frontier Health Data Bo