Grant to Support Rural Emergency Care Effort
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Indiana State University is partnering with Union Hospital and the Wabash Valley Rural Tele-health Network on a project to improve access to emergency services in rural areas.
The Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded the hospital a $1.2 million grant for the project. The grant is one of only five of its kind in the country.
The grant will support the implementation and evaluation of broad-scale tele-health networks to deliver 24-hour emergency department consultation services to rural providers without emergency care specialists.
While the grant emphasizes expanding access to needed services for rural patients, it also seeks to implement a systematic data collection and analysis strategy to create an evidence base for assessing the effectiveness of Tele-Emergency care for patients, providers and payers.
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