telehealth

Last week, central Washington Republican Dan Newhouse announced that the USDA has awarded grant funding for telemedicine and distance learning to Yakima County, Yakama Reservation, Adams County, and for teledentistry across Central Washington ...

As lawmakers continue debate on a comprehensive infrastructure bill, Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, said significantly improving our nation's  infrastructure is crucial to rural America and it's economic development. Case in point, a rural New Mexico waste water treatment plant Vilsack recently visited. ...

Late last week, the USDA announced a $42.3 million investment to help rural residents access health care and educational opportunities. USDA said rural areas are seeing higher infection and death rates related to COVID-19 due to several factors, including a much higher percentage of underlying conditions, difficulty accessing medical care, and lack of health insurance ...

House and Senate Ag Democrats have agreed on budget instructions for the farm, food and rural part of the party’s massive COVID-19 relief bill, which party leaders hope will pass in the next few weeks. There’s $3.6 billion to strengthen the food supply chain and feed the hungry. “Ma ...

On Thursday, Representative Dan Newhouse and 49 other lawmakers voiced their support for a rule that would make permanent the expansion of telehealth benefits. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services initiated the benefit expansion early in the coronavirus pandemic in hopes to provide medical care for those that could not, or should not, travel ...

President Trump signed an executive order this week that his administration says will provide millions of citizens with healthcare services during a global pandemic. The executive order seeks to expand access to telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in rural communities ...

Legislation introduced this week would expand access to telehealth options for rural residents. The KEEP Telehealth Options Act would require the federal government to study the actions taken to expand access to telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic and report on how to improve those services ...