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In early 2020, Senate Minority Leader, Bobby Singleton (D - Greensboro) reached out to the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) and Alabama Supercomputer Authority (ASA) to work together on rural healthcare pilot program to help resolve the issue of underserved populations facing access barriers to healthcare. A pilot project was planned to access Federal funding through the FCC Rural Health Care Program to help fund internet access to healthcare facilities.

The Alabama Supercomputer Authority utilizes the FCC E-rate Program to offer internet services to eligible educational facilities in the State to save them more than $10M each year, ASA looks forward to expanding to healthcare facilities in 2021.

The Alabama Supercomputer Authority approached by Sen. Bobby Singleton (R-Greensboro) earlier this year about possible federal money to launch a rural healthcare pilot program at about 15 sites around the state.

UAH Baudry Lab scientists who collaborate with the Alabama Supercomputer Center are "working with a team leveraging the power of the world's fastest supercomputer to screen possible treatments for the coronavirus Covid-19."

Representative Tim Wadsworth and Librarian Jennifer Stewart, stand beside the new box installed at the back of the Arley Public Library. The fiber optic line which feeds the new high speed internet will come through this box.

Local and state representatives gathered with library board members and reps from Alabama Supercomputer Authority at the Luverne Public Library to mark the library’s new high-speed internet capabilities.

Faster internet speeds are coming to the Chilton/Clanton Public Library through the Alabama Supercomputer Authority.