FCC’s COVID Telehealth Program Offers Funding To Community Mental Health Centers And Other Facilities In Need Of Assistance

Psychiatric News (4/29) reports the FCC’s COVID Telehealth Program “is offering funding to community mental health centers, teaching hospitals, medical schools, and other eligible nonprofit health systems seeking to adopt and integrate telehealth technology into their practices.” Under the CARES Act, the program has $200 million in funding and “is designed to help eligible practices, hospitals, and other organizations provide and maintain telemedicine/telepsychiatry services so they can continue to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic, while many states are still enforcing stay-at-home orders.”

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— “Funding for Telehealth Available Under FCC’s COVID-19 Program, Psychiatric News, April 29, 2020

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