WASHINGTON — Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind., announced the Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional 70 funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Health care providers in rural communities will use this funding to provide telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hancock Regional Hospital, Greenfield, received $409,984 for laptop computers, mobile hotspots, telemedicine carts, desktop computers, tablets, remote patient monitoring equipment, a telehealth platform, videoconferencing equipment, network upgrades, and telecommunications equipment to expand the COVID-19 triage testing facility, to treat high-risk patients with virtual visits, and to support family electronic visitation to keep unnecessary visitors out of the hospital.
Margaret Mary Community Hospital, Batesville, received $140,357 for remote patient monitoring equipment and a platform, videoconferencing equipment, tablets, mobile hotspots, telemedicine carts, and network upgrades to connect physicians and patients for remote medical exams, including lung exams to assess COVID-19, and to continue remote monitoring of COVID-19 patients to evaluate symptoms.
