The USDA is awarding $110 million in grants to improve health care facilities in rural towns across the Nation. The grants will help 208 rural health care organizations expand critical services for nearly five million people in 43 states and Guam, the department said in a news release.
The investments will help build, renovate and equip health care facilities like hospitals and clinics in rural areas. They also include more than $9 million for 12 rural health care organizations to help 187,000 people living in energy communities, which are areas with high concentrations of coal-dependent jobs. Read more.
