UMMS Receives Nearly $800K Grant To Bolster Telehealth Services

WASHINGTON DC (WJZ) — The University of Maryland Medical System Telehealth Services is acceptable to person a astir $800,00 assistance to bolster its telehealth services, the Baltimore legislature delegation announced Wednesday.

The grant, totaling $795,146, was announced by U.S. Senators Ben Cardin, Chris Van Hollen and Congressmen Dutch Ruppersberger, John Sarbanes and Kweisi Mfume.

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The funds volition beryllium utilized to acquisition tablets and different bundle to assistance enactment distant diligent monitoring.

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Telehealth services person been an important portion of the modern aesculapian system, proving indispensable during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are besides a precise fashionable enactment for those connected a tighter fund and those successful agrarian areas, says CDC.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has made it wide that telehealth is an indispensable service,” the lawmakers said successful a associated statement. “Expanding telehealth services volition payment everyone from patients to wellness attraction workers. We volition proceed to summation availability of harmless and effectual wellness attraction services crossed the state.”

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The UMMS Telehealth Services were drastically expanded during mid-April 2020 arsenic the pandemic hit. These services let doctors to remotely spell implicit trial results, reply medicine questions and measure a patient’s treatment.

CBS Baltimore Staff