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Health Care Access and Improvement
Elimination of $500,000 for start-up funding for FQHCs.
Addition of $500,000 in start-up grants for FQHCs in Jeff Davis and Marion counties.
Healthcare Facility Regulation
Addition of $7,454,466 to support strategic measures for stabilizing staffing in the nursing home program.
Medicaid - Aged, Blind, and Disabled
Reduction of $74,646,745 in State funds to reflect savings from the temporary FMAP increase through September 30, 2021.
Addition of $25,328,540 to provide a 10% rate increase for home and community-based service providers.
Addition of $11,932,550 to provide a 2% rate increase for skilled nursing centers.
Addition of $3,470,204 for skilled nursing centers to update the general and professional liability, property insurance, and property tax pass-through rate components to current costs.
An expression of their heart to help others : Mercer University medical students help administer COVID-19 vaccines
Dozens of Mercer University School of Medicine students are setting time aside from their studies to volunteer and administer the vaccine around Central Georgia. Author: Molly Jett Updated: 5:57 PM EST March 3, 2021
MACON, Ga. COVID-19 vaccines need to be administered, and to do that - you have to have the manpower to do so.
That s why Mercer University School of Medicine students are stepping up.
South Carolina native Jessica Hall says she has always known she wanted to go into medicine, because she grew up around her mother Cassandra, who battled breast cancer.
Likewise: Why don’t we have a national strategic plan to fight the pandemic while we await vaccinations, which could take until mid-2021 before most Americans are vaccinated? It boils down to personality and politics.
Trump has ignored the pandemic, stating repeatedly that it will simply vanish. Democrats have done better on the state level where they control the legislative and executive branches but have only emphasized economic relief on the national level. Meanwhile, the pandemic has gotten much worse.
Both parties must bury their differences and have a consensus long-range vision for how we can emerge from this pit into which we have fallen. Hopefully, this could be implemented when Biden takes office in January. In the meantime, he needs to be working on it via a bi-partisan Committee of accepted health experts.
Excited and grateful : Coliseum Health Systems staff getting COVID-19 vaccines
As hospitals across the state continue getting their shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine, Coliseum Health Systems announced they will start vaccinating staff. Author: Kayla Solomon Updated: 12:06 AM EST December 24, 2020
MACON, Ga. On Thursday, the day that Coliseum Health Systems CEO Stephen Daugherty has been prepping for is here. Members of his staff will be getting the COVID-19 vaccine. The emergency department, the intensive care unit, and then the in-patient units where we re cohorting COVID positive patients, and then of course the medical staff that would come in contact with them as well, he says.