Kentucky receives more than $4.4 million in grants to improve rural health care

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WYMT) – Kentucky obtained greater than $4.4 million in federal funding to enhance well being care in rural communities.

Kentucky is considered one of 43 states and Guam to obtain the funding.

“The COVID-19 pandemic had an amazing impression on our rural well being care suppliers,” USDA Rural Growth Kentucky State Director Dr. Tom Carew stated. “It additionally highlighted some vulnerabilities in our system, and the tasks introduced at present will tackle these by higher equipping well being care amenities and serving to to deal with vitamin and meals insecurity. Irrespective of the place you reside, the Biden-Harris administration is dedicated to creating certain you have got entry to high-quality well being care companies.”

A number of Japanese Kentucky organizations will obtain a part of the federal grant. You’ll find the total breakdown beneath:

• Memorial Hospital Inc. will obtain $1 million to increase the intensive-care unit, cut back an infection charges, enhance testing instances, enhance affected person security, cut back transmission dangers for immunocompromised sufferers and supply pulmonary companies for folks in seven Appalachian counties.
• Volunteers of America Mid-States Inc. will get $25,000 to launch and administer a COVID-19 vaccine marketing campaign in Clay County.
• God’s Pantry Meals Financial institution will use $585,000 to increase the meals financial institution’s Cell Pantry Program. This can improve meals distribution in 16 rural counties in Central and Japanese Kentucky.
• ARH Tug Valley Well being Companies Inc. will obtain $825,000 to improve cardiac monitoring tools and provoke tele-intensive care unit companies at Highland ARH Regional Medical Heart in Prestonsburg.
• Baptist Well being Corbin will get $1 million to purchase tools together with a pulmonary perform check physique field, nuclear digicam, laryngoscope, defibrillators and a centrifuge.

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