{"id":7076627,"date":"2026-10-05T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7076627"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T07:47:19","slug":"shelby-awarded-alabama-rural-health-award-alabama-rural-health-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7076627","title":{"rendered":"Shelby Awarded Alabama Rural Health Award \u2013 Alabama Rural Health Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>May 22, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4283\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/2023\/05\/22\/shelby-awarded-alabama-rural-health-award\/sen-shelby-and-david-albright-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2667,4008\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1661225890&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;48&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1.jpg?w=681\" src=\"https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1.jpg?w=681\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4283\" width=\"346\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1.jpg?w=681 681w, https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1.jpg?w=346 346w, https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1.jpg?w=692 692w, https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1.jpg?w=100 100w, https:\/\/arhaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/sen.-shelby-and-david-albright-1.jpg?w=200 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former U.S. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama was recently awarded the Alabama Rural Health Association\u2019s \u2018Legislator of the Year\u2019 award at the 2023 annual conference in Hoover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSenator Shelby and his staff were always receptive to our advocacy for issues around rural health and other issues that impact rural Alabama,\u201d said Farrell Turner, president of the Alabama Rural Health Association (ARHA). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ARHA is the state\u2019s leader in supporting and promoting rural healthcare. With a membership of more than 1,000 healthcare professionals statewide, the association is one of the largest in the nation and advocates for legislation and policy beneficial to rural providers and facilities. In addition, the association supplies education and training to healthcare providers in rural communities statewide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Senator Shelby received this award due to his career of supporting rural health legislation. Such legislation included the Save Rural Hospitals Acts of 2020 and 2021, Fair Medicare Payments Model Act of 2017, and multiple bills supporting telehealth, broadband, and other elements supporting rural health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFormer Senator Shelby is an exemplary leader in policy and public service,\u201d said David L. Albright, PhD, president-elect of the ARHA. \u201cWe are grateful to him for a career supporting legislation building and sustaining communities across rural Alabama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about the Alabama Rural Health Association and its awards recipients, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arhaonline.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.arhaonline.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo taken by Matthew Wood.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 22, 2023 Former U.S. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama was recently awarded the Alabama Rural Health Association\u2019s \u2018Legislator of the Year\u2019 award at the 2023 annual conference in Hoover. \u201cSenator Shelby and his staff were always receptive to our advocacy for issues around rural health and other issues that impact rural Alabama,\u201d said Farrell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7076629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12750,16646,4096,13535,597,4243,26649],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7076627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alabama","tag-association","tag-award","tag-awarded","tag-health","tag-rural","tag-shelby"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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