HHS Starts Distributing $10B to Rural Hospitals

The Department of Health and Human Services has started distributing COVID-19-relief funds to hospitals, and a big chunk of that is going to be given to rural hospitals that could soon be hit hard by the pandemic.

Those facilities, which include rural acute care general hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs), Rural Health Clinics (RHCs), and community health centers, are getting $10 billion. 

The rural acute general care facilities and CAHs are getting no less than $1 million.

In addition. hospitals with a significant amount of COVID-19 cases, 395 of them across the country, are getting $12 billion.

Read more at HHS.