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bkibler@altoonamirror.com A $175-million program involving 11 hospital systems that helped long-term care facilities deal with COVID-19 for six months ended recently, and the Wolf administration has replaced it with a less-well-funded program to hold things together through the end of February. The administration asked for federal money to keep the Regional Response Health Collaboration Program going, but the recent federal stimulus didn’t provide it, so agencies cobbled together a new program, finding money to support it for two months, even as it plans to ask the Biden administration for funding to upgrade to the previous level, according to information presented at a joint agency news conference Wednesday.

Pennsylvania scales down nursing home response plan as funding runs out

Pennsylvania officials will offer a scaled-down version of its successful program providing immediate support to long-term care facilities battling COVID-19 for at least six more weeks. The Regional Congregate Care Assistance Teams (RCAT), part of the state s Long-Term Care Task Force, will replace the Regional Response Health Collaborative (RRHC). That program ended Dec. 30, when the state’s CARES Act funding expired.    The new program will continue 24-hour access to assistance started under the previous federally funded program, including COVID-19 testing, personal protective equipment orders, assessments and short-term staffing for licensed facilities serving more than 127,000  Pennsylvanians.  “Quick response is imperative. The need for the support has not disappeared,” Secretary of Health and Human Services Teresa Miller said during a press conference Wednesday.

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