Meuser announces $9.5M for upgrades to hospitals across the 9th District
U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser on Friday announced more than $9.5 million in federal funding for hospital upgrades throughout Pennsylvania’s 9th Congressional District.
Meuser, R-Dallas, said the funding stems from $193 million the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded to Pennsylvania earlier this year from the Rural Health Transformation Fund created by Congressional Republicans in the Working Families Tax Cuts.
The money allocated for this initial group of projects supports technology and infrastructure improvements, upgrades for rural hospitals, emergency medicine, and health care providers.
Meuser said Congressional Republicans created the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Fund through the Working Families Tax Cut. The funding — which represents the largest direct federal investment in rural healthcare in American history — will be distributed over the next five years to help states improve healthcare access and outcomes in rural communities.
“When Republicans passed …