Federal spending bill includes $3.7 million for health projects in Ohio

Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown has announced that the federal budget bill President Obama signed today includes $3.7 million in health-related funding for Ohio (Source: “Budget bill has $3.7 million in health care, research funds for Ohio,” MedCity News, March 11, 2009).

Brown, a Democrat, announced in a press release that projects funded in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 2009, which runs through September, include:

• $381,000 for Hospice of the Western Reserve to build Hospice House, Western Campus, in Westlake; as well as $143,000 for Akron General Health System to build an Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation Center in downtown Akron
• $808,625 for Nationwide Children’s Hospital Research Institute in Columbus to expand, renovate and equip the Biorepository for Children’s and Women’s Cancers, a national archive of tissues
• $190,000 to Children’s Medical Center of Dayton to renovate its pediatric trauma center and emergency room
• $190,000 for the Appalachian Rural Health Institute at Ohio University in Athens