Rural Healthcare
The FCC’s Rural Health Care (RHC) program provides needed financial support for reliable, robust broadband to serve patients in rural markets. The healthcare marketplace changed dramatically and permanently due to the COVID pandemic, and the RHC program needs systematic improvements to accommodate the surge in telemedicine.
SHLB's Advocacy
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Key Documents
March 2020
FCC ORDER
Promoting Telehealth for Low-Income Consumers / COVID-19 Telehealth Program
October 2019
FCC ORDER
Promoting Telehealth in Rural America
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Upcoming Webinar: Should Congress Repeal the FCC’s E-Rate HotSpot Lending Decision?
SHLB Congressional Fly-In
The SHLB Coalition is organizing a fly-in of SHLB members to support E-rate, the Rural Health Care program and the Universal Service Fund on April 9-11.
AnchorNets 2025
Join us October 29-31 in Arlington VA for our annual AnchorNets conference.