USDA makes investment to improve health care in rural Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – The U.S. Division of Agriculture introduced Thursday that it’s awarding over a million {dollars} in grants to additional enhance well being care amenities in Wisconsin.

The $1.5 million in grants was made obtainable from funds from the Emergency Rural Well being Care Grants Program.

The USDA Rural Growth promotes a wholesome neighborhood and atmosphere by the grants they distribute to make sure folks, youngsters and households have entry to mandatory well being care. These grants particularly assist well being take care of folks and locations that usually lack entry.

“Beneath the management of President Biden, Vice President Harris and Agriculture Secretary Vilsack, USDA is dedicated to creating certain that folks, irrespective of the place they stay, have entry to top quality, dependable well being care companies,” USDA Rural Growth State Director for Wisconsin Julie Lassa mentioned. “Any such funding strengthens our rural well being care infrastructure and is important to the well being and well-being of individuals dwelling in small communities throughout our state.”

The investments will assist rural well being care suppliers implement telehealth and vitamin help packages, enhance staffing to manage COVID-19 vaccines and checks, construct or improve amenities and buy medical provides.

A million {dollars} of the grant cash for Wisconsin can be utilized in Lafayette County to buy gear for a brand new essential entry hospital to be inbuilt Darlington. The brand new constructing can be on a 36-acre lot and can be designed to satisfy the neighborhood’s present and future wants.

The opposite $581,824 will go to Burnett Medical Heart, Inc. to assist implement an digital report protecting system of their amenities.

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