Coronavirus update for Tuesday, April 28 as of 4:00 p.m.

NASH Advocacy

NASH has written to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma to express concern about how CMS distributed the second round of grants from CARES Act funding for hospitals and problems that approach will cause and to ask for a change of direction in the future distribution of federal COVID-19-related grants to hospitals.

White House

The Trump administration has released two new documents to support its plan for reopening the country and its economy:  a testing overview and an accompanying testing blueprint.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The CDC has updated its COVID-19 guidance for different types of clinical facilities.

Food and Drug Administration

Federal Funding Opportunities for Hospitals

  • The National Alliance of Safety-Net Hospitals has prepared a document that collects and presents in one place the various new federal funding opportunities for hospitals resulting from legislation addressing the COVID-19 public health emergency.  Find that document here.

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