$667K boosts prenatal healthcare, telemedicine network for American Samoa | University of Hawaiʻi System News
A USDA rural development grant has resulted in big gains for prenatal healthcare for pregnant women in American Samoa. The $667,665 grant, part of $42 million for rural development across the United States and its territories, will be used to establish a maternal telemedicine network at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Tropical Medical Center, the only hospital in American Samoa, working in collaboration with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine ( JABSOM). Years of working together on continuing education, distance learning, health workforce development, cancer pre...
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