FCC Approves Third Set of COVID-19 Telehealth Program Applications

The Federal Communications Commission approved an additional six funding applications, totaling $2.56 million, for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program. To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 17 health care providers in 10 states for a total of $9.5 million in funding. Below is a list of health care providers that were awarded funding:

• Anne Arundel Medical Center, Inc. in Annapolis (MD) was awarded $664,606 to implement video telehealth services to diagnose and treat COVID-19 patients across 11 Medically Underserved Areas throughout Central Maryland and to support remote patient visits and monitoring to protect high-risk patients who must be triaged out of the hospital, or as part of an early discharge program for non-COVID patients to preserve hospital capacity.
• Christiana Care Health Services in Newark (DE) was awarded $714,322 to expand its telehealth and remote patient monitoring services to low-income, vulnerable patients, primarily in New Castle County.
• Garfield Health Center in Monterey Park (CA) was awarded $130,217 to provide remote care to low-income, vulnerable patients with underlying and/or chronic health conditions that are at high risk for COVID-19, while triaging COVID-19 patients in the San Gabriel Valley.
• HIV/AIDS Alliance for Region 2 d/b/a Open Health Care Clinic in Baton Rouge (LA) was awarded $116,049 to expand its telehealth and remote patient monitoring capabilities to treat low-income, vulnerable patients.
• NYU Grossman School of Medicine in New York (NY) was awarded $772,687 to expand telehealth services that allow high-risk, elderly, and vulnerable patients to remain at home while receiving complex care and chronic disease management.
• White Plains Hospital Medical Center in White Plains (NY) was awarded $165,832 to deploy telehealth services to treat high-risk and vulnerable patients with pre-existing pulmonary conditions and to implement telehealth services to address the facility’s surging patient population, while minimizing the risk of COVID-19 exposure for staff and patients without COVID-19.