Project Title:
LVD Broadband Infrastructure, Use, and Deployment Project
Funding Program:
Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program - Round 1
Project Purpose/Type:
This project will have immediate positive impacts in the Tribal community in terms of health, education, and economic development opportunities, and also contribute to comprehensive planning for a Broadband Infrastructure Deployment project. Specifically, TBCP funds will (1) enhance and expand telehealth capabilities; (2) remove barriers to broadband access; and allow the Tribe to (3) engage in Broadband Infrastructure Planning.
State(s):
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$500,000.00Funding Amount
The project proposes the following activities:
- Broadband planning activities cost.
- Supplies and equipment for telehealth services.
- Stop gap internet costs.
- Security Audit.
- Select contractor to perform penetration and other security-related audits in accordance with the Tribe’s procurement requirements.
- Select contractor to perform a HIPPA compliance audit and relevant testing of the LVD Health Center systems in accordance with the Tribe’s procurement requirements.
- Develop and perform a community virtual health use and adoption assessment focusing on vulnerable populations to determine barriers related to current telehealth programs and solutions to ensure delivery of more impactful telehealth programs reaching 50% more patients than those served in the last 12 months.
- Purchase, install, and train providers and patients on telehealth equipment.
- Develop and implement training for patients on the benefits of telehealth opportunities and training for the members to be targeted by telehealth services.
- Measure outcomes through vulnerability gap closures and increased telehealth appointments.
Approximately 419 households located on the reservation in Watersmeet in Gogebic County of the State of Michigan or on lands designated by the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs of the Department of the Interior and that are near to the reservation where financial assistance and social service programs are provided to individuals because of their status as Indians.