Thirty-three small and rural hospitals in Ohio will receive grants of $21,000 apiece for improvement projects ranging from reducing medical errors to complying with federal patient information regulations.
The state and federal grant money totaling $693,000 will be administered by the Foundation for Healthy Communities of the Ohio Hospital Association, the association said in a release. The grant money comes from the Ohio Small Hospital Improvement Program and the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program.
The hospitals plan to use the grant money to:
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- Enhance productivity of patient registration staffs by using mobile computing devices
- Upgrade telemetry equipment to avoid potential interference when the nation’s television system goes all-digital
- Improve infection control techniques in surgery
- Buy computerized doctor order-entry systems
- Improve patient safety and security by buying closed-circuit cameras and equipment
For a complete list of the 33 hospitals receiving the grants, click here.