SHLB, Others Knock Rural Healthcare Program on Transparency, Pace of Funding Decisions
Rural healthcare advocates voiced "frustration with the lack of transparency" in the RHC program "and the pace of funding decisions for 2018 applicants." The application window closed in June "and yet the total demand for funding (which is not difficult…
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to calculate) has not yet been released," wrote John Windhausen, Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition executive director, on meetings he and telehealth representatives had with FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, aides and Wireline Bureau staffers, posted Wednesday in docket 17-310. "No applicants we spoke to had received any funding decisions, and ... the lack of information is making it very difficult for applicants to plan." They cited "possible concern" about a recent Universal Service Administrative Co. statement "indicated that eligible single-year applications would be fully funded, which implies that applicants who did not request single-year funding might not be fully funded."