Hyde-Smith backs bill to improve rural emergency care services

Hyde-Smith backs bill to improve rural emergency care services

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) recently joined U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in introducing legislation to create two new federal grant programs to expand walk-in urgent care, triage, and emergency stabilization services at existing community health centers, rural healthcare clinics, and local health departments. The grant programs authorized in the Rural Health Innovation Act (S.4204) are designed to help rural Mississippi a…