Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) today issued additional guidance clarifying certain provisions implementing the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), including whether public hospitals are eligible for a PPP loan.
Dear Administrator Engels:
The outpouring of love, support and gratitude shown toward our magnificent health care workers has helped to keep them going in the strenuous battle against COVID-19. The gestures and praise for our health care heroes is a wonderful thing, and we must keep it up.
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A panel of 4 experts discussed federal policy emerging from Congress and the Administration under COVID-19 focusing on rural health priorities and took questions from the audience. They reviewed emergency funding, Medicare and Medicaid payment improvements, telehealth, regulatory relief, 340B drug…
The AHA and American Nurses Association today urged Congress to "act quickly to get needed resources into the health care system," so that hospitals, nurses and physicians responding to COVID-19 are able to continue to provide treatments, front-line health care personnel are able to provide care…
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced that it will distribute an additional $22 billion in funds from the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund the week of May 4:
The AHA and American Nurses Association urged Congress to “act quickly to get needed resources into the health care system,” so that hospitals, nurses and physicians responding to COVID-19 are able to continue to provide treatments, front-line health care personnel are able to provide care and…
The Food and Drug Administration issued Gilead Sciences an emergency use authorization for the investigational antiviral drug remdesivir to treat suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in adults and children hospitalized with severe disease.
The AHA, along with five other health organizations, urged Attorney General Bill Barr in providing “relief from the technical requirements of the Federal fraud and abuse laws and the unnecessary risk they pose to hospitals during a declared public health crisis.”