Hamilton Memorial Hospital District has been awarded a U.S. Department of Agriculture Emergency Rural Health Care Grant totaling $895,000. This grant will assist in funding the implementation of the Epic electronic medical record system installed in September of last year. During the announcement, the hospital also marks the construction completion of two additional, state-of-the-art, inpatient isolation environments.
These newly renovated isolation patient rooms were a $345,000 project funded by Hamilton Memorial Hospital Foundation through community financial support and CARES Act Provider Relief Funds. Both the USDA Emergency Rural Health Care Grant and new patient isolation rooms will assist the hospital in responding to the health needs of patients for years to come in the post-pandemic landscape.
The Epic EMR has been made available to HMHD through an affiliation agreement with SSM Health. This group-purchase hosted solution of Epic EMR does not simply improve coordination of care between HMHD and SSM Health facilities, it also allows HMHD to seamlessly connect rural patient medical information with Epic EMR facilities everywhere.