Here are eight things to know:
1. Specifically, the program will boost veteran healthcare.
2. Additionally, the program will help providers with policy research designed to understand rural community challenges.
3. HRSA’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy will divide the grant into four programs, which will support 60 rural communities in 32 states.
4. The grant will also aid seven Rural Health Research Centers, with $700,000 to each center every year, for four years.
5. The Telehealth Network grant program will receive the greatest award of $6.3 million. Twenty-one community health organizations will receive $300,000 every year for three years, to enhance health information and teleconnections to school-based health centers.
6. The Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement grants will total $3 million, divided among 21 organizations focused on improving care for chronic conditions.
7. Rural healthcare settings usually face low rates of employer-provided health coverage and low physician density. Additionally rural healthcare challenges involve high rates of motor vehicle accidents, alcohol abuse among youth as well as high suicide and serious injury accident rates.
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