Source: MHEALTHINTELLIGENCE, 6/16/20

 Lawmakers are looking to extend telehealth into rural parts of America to improve access for people in need of mental health services. A group of Senators last week introduced the Home-Based Telemental Health Care Act of 2020 (S.3917), which would create a grant program to help providers to extend their connected health platforms into rural areas focused on the farming, fishing and forestry industries. “Now, especially as our nation continues dealing with a pandemic, we need to help rural America overcome the unique obstacles that small towns and rural communities face in providing mental health,” Senator Tina Smith (D-MN), who sponsored the bill with Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD), said in a press release.

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