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Rural Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loan and Grant Program

This USDA program provides loans and grants to medical and educational facilities to improve rural telemedicine and distance learning services. Funding is used to provide telecommunications, computer networks, and related technologies to facilities that target rural students, teachers, medical professionals, and residents.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has a clear purpose, to provide loans and grants to improve rural telemedicine and distance learning service. This results in increased access to learning opportunities and improved medical care in rural areas.
  • Performance measures, baselines and targets have been established. Progress in meeting performance goals was demonstrated. For example, one long-term measure is the percentage of rural school districts offering distance learning classes.
  • There are no periodic independent evaluations of the program's performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Determining how and when to implement periodic independent reviews, focusing on how well the program is accomplishing its mission, and meeting its long-term goals.
  • Collecting grantee performance information and making it available to the public.
  • Reviewing program performance and adjusting assumptions used to develop budget estimates of loan program costs.

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