Unicoi County’s Ballad Health Hospital Awarded $9.8 Million to Rebuild After Helene Flooding
Unicoi County’s Ballad Health Hospital Awarded $9.8 Million to Rebuild After Helene Flooding The State of Tennessee and FEMA have approved $9.8 million to replace Ballad Health’s hospital in rural Erwin which was destroyed when Tropical Storm Helene swept across Eastern Tennessee in late September. The 10 in-patient bed hospital, which sits along the banks of the Nolichucky River in the southern Appalachian mountains, has been serving the local community and surrounding agricultural area since 1953. Over the years, it has expanded and modernized, offering bone density testing, echocardiography, the latest diagnostic imaging technology and a sleep medicine lab. The
FEMA Awards Over $122 Million to the Forensic Psychiatry Hospital in Ponce
FEMA Awards Over $122 Million to the Forensic Psychiatry Hospital in Ponce Guaynabo, PUERTO RICO — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) obligated over $122 million to the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration (ASSMCA, in Spanish) to repair the Forensic Psychiatry Hospital in Ponce, a mental health center that provides medical-legal evaluation to people with mental disorders who have been intervened by the Puerto Rico criminal justice system. “This hospital is vital in the evaluation of people with mental health conditions, and it is essential that it operates in optimal conditions to provide adequate care. With this funding allocation, FEMA
FEMA Provides $1.6 Million to the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
FEMA Provides $1.6 Million to the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced today that $1,602,360 in federal funding has been made available to the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for critical medical services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic. This grant funding is part of the recovery efforts for the federal disaster declaration of March 26, 2020. This funding will reimburse the Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for emergency response and protective measures taken during the pandemic, including costs for