Grant to fund ER study
By Brian J. Reed
Published:
Sunday, March 30, 2008 3:41 PM CDT
POMEROY — Meigs County has received a $6,000 grant to study feasibility of combining a 24-hour emergency room with the Family Health Care clinic now serving the county’s residents.
The funds will allow a six-member team to visit rural health care facilities around the country to see if their models for rural health care can be used to develop additional health care services here.
County Commissioner Mick Davenport said the funding came from the Ohio Rural Health Quality Initiative. He said the team from the county attended a program a year ago and submitted a proposal to the organization for a feasibility study. He received notification Friday of the grant award.
The team represents the economic development office, board of commissioners, Department of Job and Family Services and the Gallia-Meigs Community Action Agency.
The Family Health Care clinic, located in the county-owned medical arts building on the Veterans Memorial Hospital property, has been operating for three months and is now at full capacity, Davenport said.
It is operated by a Chillicothe-based non-profit organization, on behalf of county commissioners. The clinic provides family practice services to anyone, regardless of health insurance, on a sliding fee scale.
You’re pointing out the first thing I thought when I read this story. What about Veteran’s Memorial in Pomeroy? Did it close down or something? I’ve visited relatives in that hospital a number of times. My parents grew up in Meigs County, and I used to spend summers there with my grandparents. This story sounds like a bunch of crap, just based on the false claim that there’s no hospital in Meigs County. Whether it’s because Hitlery just made it up, or she’s repeating a false/exaggerated account from a syncophant without fact checking it - who can say.