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ELIZABETH More than $200,000 in funding for Coplin Health Systems was announced last week by Sens. Shelley Moore Capito-R, W.Va. and Joe Manchin,-D, W.Va.
The grant was awarded through U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration and is part of a community based Rural Health Care Services Outreach program, according to a press release from Sen. Manchin’s office.
The outreach program works to meet the specific needs of the community through evidence-based approaches with a goal of improving and expanding rural healthcare.
Sen. Manchin has worked on this initiative for over a year and through his efforts, HRSA changed their qualifications for communities to be deemed “rural,” and this change includes Wirt County.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
At the peak of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Georgia, Dr. Deepak Aggarwal pulled into the driveway of the home he shares with his wife and two school-aged children.
In his years as a kidney doctor, the chief of the medical staff at Northeast Georgia Health System had never witnessed such a ruthless disease.
As was habit throughout the pandemic, he refrained from entering the house until he removed his clothes in the garage to avoid exposing his family. But on this day, just as the garage door opened, he saw his son dash outside to meet him. Behind the boy appeared his panicked wife, shouting: Don t touch him! Don t touch him!
Rural health centers get $418,000 in federal funding
April 22, 2021 GMT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) Two rural healthcare providers in West Virginia will get $418,800 from the federal government, the state’s U.S. senators announced Wednesday.
Wirt County Health Service Association will get about $218,800 and Williamson Health and Wellness Center will receive $200,000.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin and Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito said they successfully advocated for the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to make counties such as Wirt County eligible for the rural funding.
“I am pleased HRSA is investing in healthcare programs at the Wirt County Health Services Association, also known as Coplin Health Systems, and at Williamson Health & Wellness Center in Mingo County, which will support them in addressing the healthcare needs of their local communities,” Manchin said in a news release.
Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org
A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Connecticut’s largest drive-through vaccination clinic administered by Community Health Center, Inc., a 10-lane clinic which opened January 18 at Pratt & Whitney Runway in East Hartford to vaccinate eligible individuals.
As a home health care worker, Norwalk resident Amelia McClinton lived in fear of infecting her clients with COVID-19. She was looking for vaccination appointments online when her local community health center called her about a day-long clinic meant just for patients like her.
“I wanted to get vaccinated, so I would have kept looking, but this was so easy and convenient,” said McClinton, who is Black. “It takes a big burden off my mind.”
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