Midwest nonprofit wins $8.15M telehealth grant

Jeff Byers | | Health Exec | Telehealth
Senior housing nonprofit Good Samaritan Society has received more than $8.15 million in grant funding over three years from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to deliver sensor technology and telehealth services to help rural seniors age in place.

The funding is part of the Helmsley Rural Health Program, which over the last two years awarded a total of more than $65 million in grants to institutions and organizations in the upper Midwest. About 1,600 seniors living in 40 communities in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska will be involved in the Good Samaritan Society project, called LivingWell@Home.

The Good Samaritan Society already offers both sensor technology and telehealth services. The LivingWell@Home project expands these services and provides a way to study and prove the efficacy of both technologies, so government entities and private insurance companies will provide reimbursement, according to the society, based in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Jeff Byers

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