11.21.11 Six states in the Mississippi River Delta region are getting more than $6 million in rural healthcare grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More than half of it is going to Mississippi.

Nearly $3 million in rural development grants will pay for the first urgent care center in Mound Bayou, Miss., and almost $700,000 will create an electronic intensive care unit system among five hospitals in Mississippi's poorest rural counties, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Friday.