ACRMC Secures $5 Million Grant to Build New Medical Facility Near Mt. Orab

Adams County Regional Medical Center secured $5,006,180 from the Ohio Appalachian Community Grant Program to construct and equip a new medical facility near Mt. Orab, marking the Seaman-based hospital system's second award from the same funding program in less than a year.

The new Brown County facility will offer primary care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, radiology imaging services, and a lab draw station. Beyond those core services, ACRMC will partner with the University of Cincinnati Physicians Group to bring visiting specialists to the site, extending care options that have been difficult to access in that part of the county.

ACRMC described the project as a direct response to a gap that opened more than a decade ago when Brown County Hospital closed in 2014. The system already operates five family medicine clinics across Adams and Brown counties, but the new Mt. Orab facility would represent a substantially expanded footprint in the area, adding therapy services, imaging, and specialist access that a standard clinic does not provide.

This grant follows an earlier award announced in April, when ACRMC and the Adams County Ohio Valley School District were jointly selected under the Appalachian Children's Health Initiative, a component of the same grant program that is distributing over $64 million to the Appalachian Children Coalition statewide. Under that award, the school district received $1,337,328 to launch a telemedicine program serving students, teachers, administrators, and support staff across its three PreK-12 schools. ACRMC will place a medical assistant in each of those schools to reduce the burden on school nurses and coordinate telehealth visits with hospital staff. A community mobile care program, staffed at minimum with a nurse practitioner, will also be funded through that award.

Together, the two grants bring more than $6.3 million in Appalachian Community Grant Program investment tied to ACRMC and its school district partner, touching both brick-and-mortar infrastructure in Mt. Orab and school-based telehealth access in Adams County.

Construction timelines, the precise location of the Mt. Orab facility, and the full scope of the University of Cincinnati Physicians Group partnership have not yet been publicly detailed by ACRMC.