The number of people hospitalized with the covid-19 in the state reached a new 22-month low on Thursday as the state's new case numbers also continued to decline.
Although a federal program is no longer paying for it, the Arkansas Department of Health will continue to provide free coronavirus testing for the uninsured at its local health units around the state, a spokeswoman said.
Arkansas' death toll from the coronavirus rose Thursday by 50 the second-highest one-day increase in more than a year as the number of patients hospitalized with covid-19 in the state fell to its lowest level since November.
Arkansas' death toll from the coronavirus rose Thursday by 50 the second-highest one-day increase in more than a year as the number of patients hospitalized with covid-19 in the state fell to its lowest level since November.
Thirteen Arkansas hospitals face penalties of 1% reductions in Medicare payments in federal fiscal year 2022 for high rates of hospital-acquired conditions, up from 10 hospitals in 2021 and 2020. Thirty-four hospitals were not penalized and 40 were exempt.