{"id":87,"date":"2020-04-10T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2020-04-10T18:07:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T18:07:06","slug":"rosen-joins-colleagues-in-bipartisan-letter-urging-hhs-to-support-rural-hospitals-in-coronavirus-emergency-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Rosen Joins Colleagues in Bipartisan Letter Urging HHS to Support Rural Hospitals in Coronavirus Emergency Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>Today, U.S. Senator Jacky\u00a0Rosen\u00a0(D-NV) joined Senate colleagues in a bipartisan letter\u00a0urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider the needs of rural\u00a0hospitals and\u00a0hospitals with high percentages of Medicaid and Medicare patients as HHS distributes the $100 billion healthcare fund included in the\u00a0CARES Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nvhealthnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rosen-mug.jpg?resize=201%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88\"\/><figcaption>Sen. Jacky Rosen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLast year rural&nbsp;hospitals closures hit a record high, and 2020 is on pace to be even higher.&nbsp; So far this year we have had eight rural&nbsp;hospitals close, with several more on the brink. About 60 million people, nearly one in five Americans, live in rural areas and depend on their local&nbsp;hospitals for care,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>wrote Senator&nbsp;Rosen.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cAbout 60 million people, nearly one in five Americans, live in rural areas and depend on their local&nbsp;hospitals for care.&nbsp; Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, rural&nbsp;hospitals were already operating on shoestring budgets, and with the cancellation of elective procedures, have a desperate and immediate need for more funding. Therefore, we request you make this funding available immediately to provide relief to our struggling health care providers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read Senator Rosen\u2019s full letter&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/rosen.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2020-04\/COVID-19%20Rural%20Formula%20Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0Today, U.S. Senator Jacky\u00a0Rosen\u00a0(D-NV) joined Senate colleagues in a bipartisan letter\u00a0urging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider the needs of rural\u00a0hospitals and\u00a0hospitals with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/?p=87\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-primary-care","category-uncategorized","tag-rural-hospitals","tag-sen-jacky-rosen","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nvhealthnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/rosen-mug.jpg?fit=201%2C250&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nvhealthnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}