{"id":10282,"date":"2021-12-01T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=10282"},"modified":"2021-12-02T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T21:00:36","slug":"sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-secure-306-million-for-rural-georgia-health-care-providers","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-secure-306-million-for-rural-georgia-health-care-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sens. Ossoff, Rev. Warnock Secure $306 Million for Rural Georgia Health Care Providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sen. Ossoff delivers on promise to rush support to rural hospitals in Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013\u2013 Georgia U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff secured $306 million to help support Georgia\u2019s rural hospitals and health care providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funds will help more than 1,500 Georgia rural hospitals, clinics, and doctor\u2019s offices keep their doors open and provide care to Georgians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sens. Warnock and Ossoff delivered the funding through the American Rescue Plan, which will help rural hospitals and health care providers combat the pandemic and continue serving their local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the summer, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-fighting-for-additional-funds-for-georgias-rural-hospitals\/\">called<\/a>&nbsp;on the Department of Health and Human Services to rush funding to rural hospitals, citing Georgia\u2019s rural hospitals and clinics\u2019 need for additional support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Sen. Ossoff\u2019s push, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/following-push-sen-ossoff-secures-additional-funding-for-georgia-hospitals\/\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;the disbursement of funding for rural hospitals in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have secured these upgrades to health clinics serving Georgia families, and I will remain a relentless champion for health care access, quality, and affordability in our state,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis critical funding will help support our rural hospitals so they can continue doing what they do best: keeping our families and communities safe and healthy through this pandemic, and beyond. I\u2019m going to continue working and pushing to make sure Washington is making strong Federal investments to strengthen rural health care in Georgia, and help save lives,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>said Sen. Rev. Warnock.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/21.11.29_Georgia-Rural-PRF-Awards1.xlsx-Read-Only.pdf\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0for a full breakdown of the allocated funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em># # #<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ossoff delivers on promise to rush support to rural hospitals in Georgia Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013\u2013 Georgia U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff secured $306 million to help support Georgia\u2019s rural hospitals and health care providers. The funds will help more than 1,500 Georgia rural hospitals, clinics, and doctor\u2019s offices keep their doors open [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10282","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10284,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/10282\/revisions\/10284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}