{"id":14890,"date":"2022-09-08T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=14890"},"modified":"2022-09-08T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T20:02:17","slug":"breaking-senate-passes-sen-ossoff-championed-bipartisan-bill-to-bring-more-mobile-health-clinics-to-georgia","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/breaking-senate-passes-sen-ossoff-championed-bipartisan-bill-to-bring-more-mobile-health-clinics-to-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Senate Passes Sen. Ossoff-Championed Bipartisan Bill to Bring More Mobile Health Clinics to Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sen. Ossoff successfully worked across the aisle to help more Georgia families access life-saving care<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C. \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;This week, the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan bill championed by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff to help bring more mobile health clinics and rural health centers to Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Sen. Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.savannahtribune.com\/articles\/sen-ossoff-announces-bipartisan-push-to-bring-mobile-health-clinics-to-georgia-families\/\">successful work<\/a>&nbsp;across the aisle, the U.S. Senate has passed the bipartisan&nbsp;<em>MOBILE Heath Act<\/em>, which will bring more mobile health clinics and rural health centers to Georgia to help more families access medical and dental care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have worked together as Democrats and Republicans to create more opportunities for Georgia families to access health care,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bipartisan bill now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues to help more families in Georgia access vital health care, especially for communities with limited health care access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Sen. Ossoff and Sen. Warnock helped bring an additional $300 million&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-warnock-announce-historic-health-care-expansion-for-georgia-families\/\">to upgrade the Grady Health and Augusta University Health Systems<\/a>, expanding health access for medically-underserved families across Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In August, Sen. Ossoff also led a bipartisan push with Rep. Buddy Carter to combat staffing shortages in Georgia and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-rep-buddy-carter-lead-bipartisan-push-to-boost-health-care-workforce-across-georgia\/\">bring more physicians, nurses, and emergency medical personnel<\/a>&nbsp;to the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/bills\/s958\/BILLS-117s958is.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the&nbsp;<em>MOBILE Health Act.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ossoff successfully worked across the aisle to help more Georgia families access life-saving care Washington, D.C. \u2014&nbsp;This week, the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan bill championed by U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff to help bring more mobile health clinics and rural health centers to Georgia. Following Sen. Ossoff\u2019s&nbsp;successful work&nbsp;across the aisle, the U.S. Senate has [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14890","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14890","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14894,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14890\/revisions\/14894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}