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Useful Stats: USDA Awards More Than $25.8M to Distance Learning and Telemedicine Projects
USDA Rural Development recently awarded 103 Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) grants to provide improved educational and medical services to rural residents in 38 states. The DLT grants, totaling more than $25.8 million, are designed to connect communities to medical services and educational opportunities they would not otherwise have, according to Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Thomas Dorr.
Of the 103 DLT grants awarded, 57 will provide enhanced medical services and 46 will fund projects to improve access to educational opportunities. The DLT program was created to bring electronic educational resources to rural schools and improve health care delivery in rural America. Since its inception, the DLT program has funded 534 projects in 44 states and four U.S. territories totaling $171 million. The recipients of the 103 DLT grants can be found at http://www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/index.htm
SSTI has prepared a table presenting the number of DLT awards and dollar amount per state from 2002-2006. Of the 397 grants awarded over the five-year period, Texas received the most number of grants at 25 (totaling $9.97 million), followed by Alaska (21), Oklahoma (20), New York (19) and Maine (18).
SSTI’s table is available at: http://www.ssti.org/Digest/Tables/112006t.htm