Fort Drum has one of the most innovative healthcare systems of any base operated by the US Army.\u00a0 Rather than concentrate all its medical facilities on-base, Fort Drum has partnered with hospitals, clinics and care providers in the community.<\/p>\n
The Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that key funding for the project — roughly $500,000 — is on the line in Washington DC.<\/p>\n North country lawmakers will find out this week if the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization receives a boost of federal funds or is left looking to other sources to survive.<\/p>\n A House-Senate conference committee will decide whether to support the FDRHPO through an annual bill outlining defense programs. The prospects may be dim, said a Senate aide who works with the Armed Services Committee\u2019s Democratic majority.<\/p>\n At stake is $500,000 for the organization, a network of local hospitals that helps fill in the gaps created by a lack of a hospital on Fort Drum. The program\u2019s operating budget has been supported by federal earmarks since its creation several years ago, although grants and other funding constitute a big piece of its overall finances.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If the funding isn’t secured, it could have wide-reaching implications not just for military personnel and their families, but for the wider healthcare system in the Watertown area.\u00a0 Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fort Drum has one of the most innovative healthcare systems of any base operated by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,997,4803,878,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}