WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Community Facilities Emergency Rural Health Care Program has awarded a $496,300 grant to Community Memorial Hospital in Hicksville. The funding will be used to recover some of the revenue the hospital lost during the COVID-19 pandemic and to help ensure continued care for the residents of Hicksville and western Defiance County.

“Communities across Ohio have stepped up to meet the challenges of this pandemic, and rural health care centers have been at the heart of those efforts,” said Brown. “This investment will allow Community Memorial Hospital to strengthen its health care offerings for rural Ohioans who know that quality care is often too far away or too hard to access.”

“The USDA has been instrumental in helping us find resources we need to meet the needs of our community. I cannot thank them enough for what they have done to support Community Memorial Hospital,” said Roy Davis, CEO Community Memorial Hospital.

USDA’s Community Facilities Emergency Rural Health Care Program provides recovery grants to provide immediate relief to address economic conditions caused by the COVID-19 emergency. Funding must be used to support immediate health care needs, prepare for a future pandemic, or increase quality of health care services and improve community outcomes.

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