The Obama administration has announced that it will be offering a grant program worth $1 billion to provide medical organizations with the opportunity to hire, train, and implementation of new workers.
According to an announcement from the administration, the grant program has been named the Health Care Innovation Challenge and has been created in order to discover “the most compelling new ideas to deliver better health, improved care and lower costs to people enrolled in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.”
Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, said that nationwide private and public community organizations alike are working to discover innovative opportunities to better the healthcare system as a whole, and these efforts will only benefit from the Health Care Innovation Challenge.
This new program is being launched as an element of the “We Can’t Wait” campaign, which has been created to help to push Republicans in Congress toward the support of the jobs program spearheaded by President Obama. Overall, this grant program is another element of the healthcare law of 2010, which is now facing Supreme Court consideration.
The $1 billion will be granted to various projects nationwide which will examine innovative new ways to save money while still providing high quality medical care. It will also favor projects that will be capable of quickly hiring, training, and implementing new capable healthcare employees.