Rural healthcare access showing signs of improvement over the last year
“Rural parts of Louisiana have struggled to get quality healthcare resources for a while and COVID shined a bright light on the problem. But members of the Louisiana Rural Healthcare Association say the money they were given after last year’s session went a long way. ‘We also were fortunate to enter into a two-million-dollar performance-based energy efficiency contract with Seamans in 2020. And this allowed us to upgrade some water management fixtures, lighting, electric meter consolidation and plant controls. It also allowed us to replace our steam boilers, which was a great thing. There were replaced with a couple tankless hot water heaters,’ said a representative of the association.”