The Obama administration is announcing a $840 million grant program that is set to help improve the quality of care delivered to patients.

Doctors and Hospitals are eligible to receive sums of the grant in its efforts to improve facilities' care. Patrick Conway, Medicare's chief medical officer, told The Associated Press Thursday, "The goal is to identify ways of delivering care that improves results for patients, and then rapidly foster the spread of those ideas throughout the system. The administration also hopes at least some approaches will save money."

President Barack Obama's health care law provided the grant money for the Transforming Clinical Practice Initiative. Doctors, hospital systems and professional associations are encouraged to work together as a group to apply for grant monies.

The Obama administration set up the four-year program to focus on coordinating care to keep patients healthier. It is believed that effects of the grant would eliminate unneeded tests, prevent hospitalizations and use electronic medical records to share information among clinicians.

Universal government-funded health care has been a major topic of discussion in the U.S. for years. Presidents before Obama have discussed the subject for nearly a century. Yet, many times the advocates for universal health care faced defeat when they implemented new ideas.

The Affordable Care Act sparked so much debate during this president's term that it was dubbed Obamacare. In March 2010, the president signed the law to reform U.S. health care. Two years later, the Supreme Court upheld the law.

According to Obamacare facts, ObamaCare's goal is to give more Americans access to affordable, quality health insurance and to reduce the growth in health care spending in the U.S.

With the new grant of $840 million, the government looks to save more money while assisting doctors and hospitals with the tools they need to care for patients.