Health Care & Social Services

TFG is committed to helping local government creatively and effectively address challenges and create opportunities in the area of health and human services. TFG provides strategic counsel in working effectively with federal stakeholders to reduce regulatory burdens and to establish partnerships resulting in service delivery in a successful and compassionate manner. While many health care policy challenges stem from decisions made by state legislatures and state health and human services agencies, targeted engagement with relevant federal agencies – including the Departments of Housing and Urban Development and Veteran Affairs – have resulted in positive outcomes for citizens served by our clients.

Client Successes

El Paso County, CO

In 2017, TFG collaborated with County staff and officials on a $614,736 grant from USDA’s FY 2017 SNAP Process and Technology Improvement Grants program for the Automating SNAP Assistance Programs (ASAP). The implementation of ASAP will improve the quality and efficiency to determine SNAP eligibility. Along with offering strategic advice on the formation of the project and the development of the grant application, TFG helped secure letters of support from five members of Colorado’s Congressional delegation.

Bladen County, NC

Four County Electric Membership Cooperatives located in Southeastern North Carolina worked with TFG to apply to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant Program (REDLG). They secured a $300,000 grant to match with $60,000 to offer zero-interest loan funding to purchase medical equipment and furniture needed to furnish a new healthcare clinic’s six examination rooms and the waiting room. The funds also purchased necessary equipment, including x-ray and ultrasound systems, to provide obstetrics and gynecology services. Bladen Healthcare, LLC is partnering with Bladen’s Bloomin’Agri Industry, the county’s non-profit economic development entity, to redevelop a currently vacant building into a new healthcare facility. The project secured USDA Rural Development financing to purchase a former restaurant, and grant funding from the NC Rural Center and the Golden LEAF Foundation, to retrofit and repair the building for conversion into a healthcare clinic.

Nassau University Medical Center

On behalf of Nassau University Medical Center, TFG focused on the relocation of Veterans health care services to the NUMC campus, extending the moratorium on CMS proposed DSH regulations, graduate medical education payment limitations, SCHIP expansion, reducing Medicare physician payment cuts, and extending 340B prescription drug benefit to inpatient settings.

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Alex Yiannoutsos / Wednesday, October 20, 2021

/ Categories: News, News & Alerts, Environment and Sustainability, Water and Natural Resources, Issues, Water and Natural Resources, Environment and Sustainability

TODAY: Family Farm Alliance and Yuma County Agricultural Water Coalition to Testify on Colorado River Drought

Family Farm Alliance and Yuma County Agricultural Water Coalition Presidents to join water management leaders at U.S. House Natural Resources Committee Hearing on the Colorado River Drought.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, The Family Farm Alliance (Alliance) and Yuma County Agricultural Water Coalition (YCAWC) will testify on the Colorado River drought conditions to the U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Ocean and Wildlife. Alliance President, Patrick O’Toole, and YCAWC President and Alliance Advisory Committee Member, Tom Davis, will join local government water management leaders from the Western United States to discuss their work in the Colorado River Basin. Mr. Davis will also represent the Agribusiness and Water Council of Arizona (ABWC) as its President in his testimony.

“Severe drought in the Western US threatens the livelihoods of millions of people—but especially farmers,” said Mark Limbaugh, TFG President. “We’ve worked with Family Farm Alliance and Yuma Country Agricultural Water Coalition for years to find solutions at the federal level to the catastrophic environmental conditions and other threats that impact western irrigated agriculture. This hearing is an opportunity for Congress to learn from Colorado River Basin experts at the forefront of efforts to protect, rejuvenate, and replenish critically important watersheds and forests in the Basin.”

The Family Farm Alliance was established over 30 years ago and now represents western irrigated agricultural interests in seventeen states to the federal government. The Ferguson Group has worked closely with the Family Farm alliance since its inception to advocate for water infrastructure development and drought mitigation efforts at the federal level. The Yuma County Agricultural Water Coalition operates in Yuma County, Arizona and aims to improve agricultural water use, irrigation, and delivery along the Colorado River.

View the Family Farm Alliance’s press release here and read President Tom Davis’ testimony here.

Who: Family Farm Alliance President, Patrick O’Toole

Yuma County Agriculture Water Coalition President, Tom Davis

What: Colorado River Drought Conditions and Response Measures Hearing

When: Wednesday, October 20^th at 11:00 AM Eastern

Where: U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife

Tune in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGvvhdWL8I

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