Baxter Regional Medical Center and the City of Big Flat are among 40 initiatives in 23 of Arkansas’s 75 counties receiving grants from the Blue & You Foundation. The 40 are sharing $3.4 million in grants to improve health.
Three awards were made in the North Central regional, with BRMC receiving $149,997 and the City of Big Flat $53,250. The third grant in the region was awarded to the Clinton School District.
BRMC’s funds will be used for its Tele-ICU Upgrade Project to improve workstations and software. The project will provide reliable access to remote patient monitoring and audio/video consulting with physicians and critical-care nurses.
The City of Big Flat will use its fund for the Come, Let’s Play Project to build a safe playground for children in the Big Flat area.
The Blue & You check is scheduled to be presented to the City of Big Flat Wednesday at noon at the community center complex. City officials are inviting community members to attend the presentation.
Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield established the Blue & You Foundation in 2001. Since then, it has awarded more than $36 million to nonprofits and governmental agencies for 1,922 health-improvement programs in 248 communities and in all 75 counties.
Blue & You Foundation executive director Patrick O’Sullivan says, “Our grants this year went to programs throughout the state that address issues and needs that organizations have identified as important to their communities. These include physical and mental health programs for all ages, opportunities to participate in exercise and good nutrition and building the future medical workforce that will care for all our citizens.”
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