{"id":380062,"date":"2022-11-22T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=380062"},"modified":"2022-11-22T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:06:19","slug":"usda-awards-1-3m-to-chcc-to-improve-operations-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/usda-awards-1-3m-to-chcc-to-improve-operations-patient-care\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA awards $1.3M to CHCC to improve operations, patient care"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_380063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-380063\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gregorio-Kilili-C.-Sablan-PW-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-380063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Gregorio-Kilili-C.-Sablan-PW-2-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-380063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development awarded Thursday more than $1.3 million to the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. to help improve its medical operations and patient care, according to Delegate Gregorio Kilili C. Sablan (D-MP).<\/p>\n<p>In his e-kilili newsletter over the weekend, Sablan said $953,000 of the $1.3 million will be used to renovate and upgrade all 86 patient rooms at the Saipan hospital, with 16 of the rooms to be converted to airborne infection isolation rooms.<\/p>\n<p>Funding will also be used to purchase new furniture, fixtures, equipment, and break area spaces for medical and nursing staff.<\/p>\n<p>Sablan said the remaining $391,500 will be used to purchase various computers and related equipment to support CHCC\u2019s dialysis treatment program.<\/p>\n<p>This funding, he said, will partly go toward various facility improvements in the Rota clinic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development awarded Thursday more than $1.3 million to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":380064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[666,117],"class_list":["post-380062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chcc","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}