{"id":15939,"date":"2020-05-07T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15939"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:58:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:58:26","slug":"nursing-home-association-asks-for-10-billion-in-federal-coronavirus-relief-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=15939","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Home Association Asks For $10 Billion In Federal Coronavirus Relief Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Ina Jaffe for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>With more than 11,000 resident deaths, nursing homes have become the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis. Now, they&#8217;re asking the federal government for help \u2014 $10 billion worth of help.<\/p>\n<p>The American Health Care Association, the trade organization for most nursing homes, called the impact on long-term care facilities &#8220;devastating.&#8221; In a letter sent this week to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, they ask for the federal government to designate relief funding from the CARES Act for nursing homes the way it has for hospitals.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/coronavirus-live-updates\/2020\/05\/06\/851786811\/nursing-home-association-asks-for-10-billion-in-federal-coronavirus-relief-funds\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Ina Jaffe for NPR) With more than 11,000 resident deaths, nursing homes have become the epicenter of the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15940,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15939\/revisions\/15940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}