Maine organizations to receive $10 million in funding for rural health care facilities
Three Maine health care and community organizations are receiving nearly $10 million in federal loans for the expansion or construction of new facilities.
The loans, announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, were part of more than $213 million of funding provided to 80 projects in 34 states for health care facilities and other service improvements in rural communities.
In Maine, Orono-based Independence Advocates of Maine, Down East Community Hospital in Machias and Downeast Horizons in Ellsworth are receiving loans through the USDA Rural Development’s Community Facilities program.
Independence Advocates of Maine will use the $4,985,000 loan to renovate its existing 9,800-square-foot intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities and construct two 3,000-square-foot additions.
Down East Community Hospital will construct a new 4,930-square-foot addition and renovate approximately 2,420 square feet of its emergency department with the $4 million loan.
Downeast Horizon, an organization serving children and adults with developmental disabilities in Piscataquis, Hancock and Penobscot counties, will use its $1 million loan to build a new 5,120-square-foot day programs facility.
"Rural America deserves quality, affordable health care, but too often local communities lack the capital to invest in improving the facilities that deliver that care," U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement.
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