Washington, D.C. - Congressman Dave Loebsack today announced that the University of Iowa has received a $498,973 grant from the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program. The funding will be used to provide adult, pediatric and geriatric healthcare for patients at 64 remote rural locations.
"Residents of rural communities deserve to have access to the same medical care as someone living in a larger community," said Loebsack. "I am pleased the University of Iowa is receiving this funding to help them continue to lead the way in providing quality health care to all Iowans, no matter their location."
These funds will be used to provide telemedicine videoconferencing services for Family Medicine at 40 rural sites, for Child Health Specialty Clinics at 9 rural sites and for Geriatric Outreach at 15 rural sites. The rural locations are in the following counties: Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Cass, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Clay, Clayton, Decatur, Delaware, Des Moines, Dickinson, Emmett, Fayette, Fremont, Hardin, Henry, Iowa, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Keokuk, Kossuth, Linn, Louisa, Mahaska, Marion, Montgomery, Page, Plymouth, Polk, Poweshiek, Scott, Shelby, Union, Van Buren, Washington, Wayne, Winneshiek, and Wright.
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