Project ACCESS receives $85,000 to study area rural clinics needs

The region’s medical access agency Monday received word it had won a $85,000 federal grant to study the technology issues facing rural clinics on the Palouse.

Project ACCESS is a five-year-old medical program that works to increase medical access for the region’s elderly. Funded by Whitman Hospital, Gritman Medical Center and Pullman Regional Hospital it was started in 2006 to serve both Whitman and Latah counties.

The $85,000 will be used to draw up a plan for the technology issues for rural clinics in the area.

There are eight rural clinics on the Palouse which will be studied. They include...