[1st-mile-nm] USDA Announces Distance Learning and Telemedicine Awards

[Richard Lowenberg]

USDA Announces Investments to Expand Distance Learning and Telemedicine 
Opportunities in Rural Areas

www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2014/02/0013.xml

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today 
announced that the Obama Administration is investing in rural 
telecommunications equipment to help expand access to education, create 
jobs and improve health care in 25 states.

Today's announcement of nearly $16 million in USDA grants for distance 
learning and telemedicine services helps to support President Obama's 
ConnectED initiative, with the objective to connect 99 percent of 
students to broadband in the next five years.

The full list of recipients for Distance Learning and Telemedicine 
grants:
www.rurdev.usda.gov/SupportDocuments/rdDLTJanuary2014Recipients.pdf


Once again, there were no awards in New Mexico, and there were no 
awards in this round in Colorado or Utah, and only one in Arizona, for 
the Flagstaff Medical Center, Inc. ($129,412) to be used to purchase 
digital electronics and software for a telemedicine system
linking the Flagstaff Medical Center with clinics in Coconino, Apache, 
Mohave and Navajo Counties, to connect local caregivers and their 
patients with specialists at Flagstaff.

RL


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Richard Lowenberg, Executive Dir.
1st-Mile Institute, 505-603-5200
P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
www.1st-mile.org  rl at 1st-mile.org
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