The funds would be used to help ensure the state’s 36 critical access hospitals remain open. Twenty-three of them lost money last year, according to the report.
Forty percent of the funds would come from the state, with the other 60 percent coming from the federal government.
The Idaho House of Representatives has already passed the bill.
Read the Devil’s Lake Journal report on North Dakota critical access hospitals.
Read more coverage on North Dakota hospitals:
– CEO of North Dakota’s St. Alexius Medical Center Voluntarily Resigns
– CEO of North Dakota’s Jamestown Hospital to Retire by 2012
