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Success Stories

Smith Island, Maryland

Investing in Wastewater Infrastructure is Key to Preserving Smith Island, Maryland

For the people living on Smith Island, the water matters. But it’s about more than the beautiful views of the Chesapeake Bay from the picturesque island ten miles from the mainland. The multi‐generational residents depend on the surrounding Chesapeake Bay for their livelihoods. For many, crabbing, oystering, and ecotourism are what puts dollars in their bank accounts, and food on their tables. In rural communities…
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Telemedicine

Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Helps Schools, Students and Parents

The School-Based TeleHealth (SBTH) program is a collaboration between Richland County School District One (RCSD 1) and Prisma Health-Midlands to provide education and health care services in the Lower Richland Community.  This project serves some of the neediest families in the… [Read More]
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Durango Colorado's Alternative Emergency Room

As with many rural communities across the nation, Durango, CO has a limited number of primary care physicians.  The Affordable Health Care Act has added additional individuals to the health care market across the nation. Urgent care facilities are expected to fulfill the… [Read More]
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In 2015 USDA Rural Development invested $40,000 to help a nonprofit purchase a new sport utility vehicle and trailer to transport equipment and personnel.

Health in the Hills

In the medically underserved central Appalachian Mountains a much-needed healthful vehicle has been navigating the winding tree-lined roads since 1980. Known as the Health Wagon, today this mobile health unit visits eleven sites in Virginia’s Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, Lee,… [Read More]
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Rural Mississippi

Vital Healthcare Brought to Rural Mississippi via TelEmergency

With the exception of major population areas where patients have nearby access to hospitals and clinics, almost all Mississippi residents who live outside of cities and large towns live in counties that are otherwise rural, and lacking any nearby hospitals or clinics. These… [Read More]
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Healthy Families clinic, Chatsworth, Ga

Healthy Families, Chatsworth Adds Pediatric Care, Doubles Patient Visits

Healthy Families, Chatsworth is a community-based Federally Qualified Health Center providing health care services in an underserved area of rural north Georgia.  In 2018, with funds from the Health Resources & Services Administration, the center remodeled and reconfigured… [Read More]
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Cactus Health Clinic in Fort Stockton

Cactus Health Services Completes New Health Clinic

Cactus Health Services, Inc., is a Federally Qualified Health Center in operation since 2003.  Cactus Health provides services to the low income,          uninsured, and underserved populations of Brewster, Terrell and Pecos counties.  The organization       operated its primary… [Read More]
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Photo: The rural town of Myrtle Point is responding to medical emergencies in its rugged service area more easily with a new four-wheel drive ambulance.

Removing Barriers to Emergency Medical Care in Remote Community

During a severe ice and snow storm along Interstate 5, the rural town of Myrtle Point struggled to transfer a patient to a larger hospital several hundred miles away using their aging, two-wheel drive ambulance. Nestled in the foothills of the Coastal Mountain Range in… [Read More]
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The multi-slice CT scanner provides enhanced scans for the medical providers, both in-house as well as those from other facilities treating

Advancing Healthcare and Improving Patient Safety in Rural Nebraska

Brown County Hospital, located in Ainsworth, Nebraska, is a 23 bed, critical access hospital that provides health services to residents located in Brown, Rock, Keya Paha, Cherry, and Blaine counties. They use e-emergency, with their primary service provider being Avera from… [Read More]
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Fighting the Opioid Epidemic in Northern WI

According to the Department of Health Services, 827 people died in Wisconsin of opioid overdose deaths in 2016. From 2000 to 2016, the number of deaths in Wisconsin due to prescription opioids increased 600 percent, from 81 to 568 in 2016. The Lakes Community Health Center, Inc… [Read More]
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Quality, Affordable Health Care in Lytle, TX

Striving to meet the needs of medically underserved rural communities, Atascosa Health Center, Inc., sought out funding from USDA Rural Development to purchase and relocate to a much larger facility in Lytle, TX The new facility, which is approximately 8,500 square feet, has… [Read More]
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