North Dakota (KXNET) — USDA Rural Development Director Erin Oban announced Thursday that the USDA will award $155,000 in grants to improve health facilities in North Dakota.
“Rural health care has long faced unique challenges,” says Oban. “Rural health providers are dedicated to providing the highest quality care, but this is difficult in remote areas where they lack resources and manpower compared to other urban health providers. Programs such as the Rural Health Care Grant are specifically designed to fill that gap: Living, working, or raising a family in a small town should not limit the availability of services, and the USDA Rural Development is here to partner with health systems to help improve the critical care they provide.”
According to a news release, the Biden-Harris administration made these funds available for the Emergency Rural Health Grants program through a historic legislative package, the American Relief Plan Act.
This law and this program are examples of our government’s ability to act quickly to ensure that all people and families have access to quality health care, regardless of zip code.
USDA Rural Development promotes healthy communities and environments through Emergency Rural Health Care Grants, ensuring people, children and families get the care they need.
The grant supports the ability of rural communities to provide health care to people and places in the country that are often inaccessible.
This investment will help rural hospitals and health care providers implement telemedicine and nutritional assistance programs, increase staffing to manage COIVD-19 vaccines and testing, build or refurbish facilities, and purchase medical supplies. increase.
It also helps local partnerships, public bodies, non-profits and tribes to solve local rural health problems and build stronger and more sustainable rural health systems in response to the pandemic. .
- The Loretto County Public Health District will use a $155,00 grant to build a storage unit to house the district’s mobile clinic. The mobile clinic helps her 14,000 residents in Loretto County access medical care, nutritional assistance and vaccines. A storage unit protects the clinic from extreme weather conditions.
USDA will announce additional Emergency Rural Health Grant recipients in the coming weeks and months.
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