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City to accept $34,000 county pass-through for Essentia hospital rehab; library to apply for Essentia community grant
Summary
The Committee of the Whole approved accepting $34,000 from St. Louis County to be passed through the City to the Essentia Health Foundation for an emergency-department rehabilitation grant; the council also authorized a library application for up to $20,000 from an Essentia Health community grant program.
The City of Virginia’s Committee of the Whole voted July 11 to accept $34,000 from St. Louis County and pass the funds to the Essentia Health Foundation to support rehabilitation work in the Essentia Health Virginia emergency department. The committee also approved a separate action for the Virginia Public Library to apply for up to $20,000 in Essentia Health community grant funds for a private “telehealth” pod.
The funding transfer was presented by Brad Gustafson of St. Louis County and Nick Bakhtari of the Essentia Health Foundation. Gustafson summarized the request as a county allocation of $34,000 to go “towards the…
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